Updated Jul 19, 20262 min readcover-4quarterspost-routescustom-stemsdeep-shots
How to identify it
Two high safeties, like cover 2 — but the outside corners align ~8 yards off instead of squatting at 5. Everyone deep is bailing to a quarter at the snap.
Underneath is thin (only ~3 defenders), so quarters looks passive against the short game and the run.
For the quarters checks vs stack/trips/bunch (Box, Bingo, Solo, Solo Cut, Tight, Palms, Stubbie, Stump, and the zone variants) see Reading Coverages Pre- and Post-Snap.