Updated Jul 29, 20262 min readcover-6cover-9quarter-quarter-halfmatch-coverageboundary
How to identify it
Two high safeties, but the outside corners sit at different depths: the cover-2-side corner is up near 5 yards, the cover-4-side corner is back near 8.
Cover 6 puts the cover 2 half to the boundary (short side / near hash) and quarters to the field. Cover 9 is the same coverage flipped. Check where the ball is spotted to know which side is which.
It's a match coverage — zone defenders man up on routes as they declare.
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