What happened on the Jets coverage bust that led to the Broncos touchdown?

The only touchdown in yesterday’s Jets loss to the Denver Broncos was scored by Courtland Sutton late in the fourth quarter. Sutton ended up wide open in an apparent coverage bust by the Jets. What happened on the play?

The Broncos started with a bunched formation to the left side of the offensive formation. There are three Jets defenders aligned across from them.

Bunched formations can create a lot of traffic so defenders sometimes determine which receivers to guard based on the direction of their release. If you are the outside corner, you might originally be assigned to the receiver aligned the furthest outside, but you might switch if that guy cuts inside. It prevents you from dealing with traffic.

On this play Sutton breaks up the field, but nobody accounts for him.

DJ Reed and Chuck Clark both drive on Josh Reynolds who is running a shallow cross route.

Presumably one of these two should have picked up Sutton since they were both in the cluster aligned across from the three receivers.

That said, Reynolds was a far easier cover for Clark than anybody else given the assignments, and there was help over the top inside on Sutton in a way there wasn’t for Reynolds.

Tony Adams and Jamien Sherwood appear to be providing a Cover 2 shell over the top at the goal line. Neither of them seem to notice Sutton.

They both seem occupied by routes in front of them, however.

Meanwhile Sutton gets loose over the top.

Even an otherwise erratic Bo Nix has enough room to put the ball where it needs to get for the touchdown.