Coverages

Cover 6

Quarters to one side of the field and Cover 2 to the other.

Cover 6 plays quarters to one side and Cover 2 to the other, usually setting the strength to the boundary or to a specific receiver.

It lets a coordinator take away one side of the field without committing the whole defense to a single structure.

Diagram

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Cover 6

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