Maybe to put this a way that won’t make everyone mad.

“NFL tells teams players to not try and confuse things when reporting eligible.”

They tried to get cute and send 3 people for 1 person reporting. They succeeded in causing confusion just as they planned it just happened to be the ref that ended up confused.

Option 2 or 3 make the most sense to me but option 1 is probably the best option and most hands off.

And here I thought I’d like being here……