Sky and cloud cover in football?

Question

Can someone please explain what the job of corner and safety Is in cloud and sky

Answer 1

The job of the corner is to play under the receiver as a "cloud" and the safety plays up top as the "sky". Plain and simple.

Answer 2

For starters the corner doesn’t play under the receiver in cloud. He plays the flat that can be both over or under depending on the route run.



Sky and Cloud are versions of Cover 3 from a 4 DB set. That means 3 DBs deep each covering their own portion of the deep field. Either 1/3 1/3 1/3 or 1/4 1/4 1/2. With 3 DBs deep you still need to cover both flats. If you are running a 4 DB set this is the job of the weakside line backer and the remaining DB. Which DB is covering the flat is determined by the sky and cloud call. If the call is sky the strong safety has the flat and the corner is deep. If the call is cloud the strong side corner has the flat an the strong safety is deep.



So in the simplest of language sky and cloud are calls in cover 3 that determines which DB has the strong side flat.

Answer 3

Cloud Coverage Football

Answer 4

Kaleb is listed as the best answer, but actually that's not correct. Knowing and Tera, who have said similar things, are essentially correct. The only part of Knowing's answer with which I disagree is that 1/4, 1/4, 1/2 is a Cover 3 concept. That's Cover 6 (half Cover 2, half Cover 4).



Just remember that they are Cover 3 schemes and that the name refers to who is covering the strong side flat Sky=Safety, Cloud=Cornerback.

Answer 5

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Cloud coverage is a 3 deep (3 defensive backs cover the deep zone) zone cover scheme in which the two safeties and one corner cover the deep zone as opposed to "sky" coverage, which has 2 corners and one saftey responsible for the deep zone.

Answer 6

I can't get a better answer than Kaleb already gave... Basically it's the coverage in the secondary. Just hope you don't get burned for a bomb because you're in the wrong position.