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Cover 3 Sky

9 Formations52 Sets56 Plays

Overview

The Cover 3 Sky tag identifies every zone shell in the game where the strong safety rotates down into the flat and the free safety plays a single high middle third, leaving three deep defenders and four underneath. It spans 56 plays across 9 formations and 52 sets, from Nickel and Dollar looks to 4-3, 3-4, and Quarter personnel, including the Cover 3 Sky WK variant that widens the hook drops. Filtering by this tag lets you pull the same coverage read out of multiple fronts, so you can disguise pressure and user the deep middle without ever changing your core shell.

Formations (9)

Formations using Cover 3 Sky
FormationMatching setsAlignmentOpen
3-3-5Defense33
3-4Defense1010
4-2-5Defense22
4-3Defense98
Big NickelDefense22
DimeDefense44
DollarDefense11
NickelDefense2320
QuarterDefense22

Plays (56)

Plays tagged Cover 3 Sky
PlayDiagramOpen
Cover 3 Sky3-3-5 › Over Flex
Cover 3 Sky3-3-5 › Penny
Cover 3 Sky3-3-5 › Penny 3 High
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Cub
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Even
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Odd
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Over
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Over Ed
Cover 3 Sky WK3-4 › Over Solid
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Tite
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Tite 5t
Cover 3 Sky3-4 › Under

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