We’ve reached the last of our basic defensive coverage schemes: Cover 6. Hopefully, these 101-level introductions have given you a foundation to build from if you’re interested in learning more about how NFL teams defend the pass. These articles are both simple and foundational conceptually so that you can reference back to them years later: these aren’t fads, they’re instructional building blocks. Cover 1 Cover 2 Cover 3 Cover 4 We’ll break down Cover 6 below, but let’s start with how the Buffalo Bills utilize it. Bills’ Usage According to Sports Info Solutions, the Bills used Cover 6 against 14 pass attempts, which ranked seventeenth in number of attempts. The Bills’ defensive statistics (and ranks) when using Cover 6 against pass attempts are pictured below. This number from SIS may differ from what you might find elsewhere because it’s based on whether or not there was a pass attempt. For instance, if the offense used a running play while Buffalo had set up in Cover 6, it would not show up here. To put these into perspective, the highest total attempts faced while using Cover 6 was the Vikings with 48, and the lowest was Miami with four. We are…