The Broncos are a defensive-based team, and that's what they need to be right now

LONDON -- As the Denver Broncos closed retired their 13-11 win implicit the New York Jets, manager Sean Payton could spot intelligibly however they got it done.

Despite a résumé afloat of record-setting NFL offenses, Payton abruptly finds himself with a antiaircraft powerhouse that pushed, pulled and thumped to an unusual triumph implicit the Jets connected Sunday astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Denver gave up lone 82 yards and nary touchdowns to New York. The triumph moved the Broncos to 4-2 connected the season.

Payton was asked aft the crippled whether helium thinks his squad has a antiaircraft personality. He said, "Well, it was a antiaircraft squad [Sunday], and I anticipation it's a antiaircraft squad each season. In bid to win, I deliberation that's highly indispensable successful our league. And, man, they were something."

Denver finished with 9 sacks, the second-highest full successful a crippled successful franchise past and the astir the Broncos person had successful a crippled since 1996. Eight Denver players had astatine slightest a fractional sack, and extracurricular linebacker Nik Bonitto got his eighth sack of the season. The Broncos present person 30 full implicit six games.

"It was honestly beauteous crazy," Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain II said. "We're covering and it's 1 oregon 2 seconds, I look up, and there's a sack."

New York backmost Justin Fields finished 9-of-17 for 45 yards. And the Jets' minus-10 nett passing yards were the fewest by an hostile successful Broncos history, breaking a grounds of minus-7 nett acceptable successful 1971 (vs. Chicago Bears).

"I was beauteous shocked erstwhile they told america aft the game," Bonitto said. "That's beauteous funny."

Yet, erstwhile the 3rd 4th ended, the Broncos' struggles connected discourtesy and peculiar teams near them trailing 11-10. They had fumbled connected their archetypal violative series. They surrendered a 72-yard kickoff return. They had a holding punishment successful the extremity portion for a safety. And aft their lone touchdown of the crippled successful the archetypal quarter, they ventured wrong the Jets' 40-yard enactment conscionable once.

But the swarming walk unreserved -- bolstered by a versatile and carnal secondary, with Surtain arsenic the hub of the sum instrumentality -- took control. And it surely had Payton's attraction successful a play wherever the Broncos person already been successful 5 one-score games. The Broncos person already dealt with 2 walk-off losses -- to the Indianapolis Colts (Week 2) and Los Angeles Chargers (Week 3).

"Did I privation this to beryllium a one-score game? No, but it was," Payton said. "So, fortunately, we've been capable to spell with what possibly past twelvemonth was an Achilles' heel. ... You conscionable anticipation to get done it. You're disappointed you're successful a dogfight similar that, but you're successful it, and you've got to fig it out."

The Jets scored tract goals connected their archetypal 2 possessions. Broncos wide receiver Troy Franklin fumbled astatine Denver's 37-yard line, starring to one. Then they allowed a 72-yard kickoff instrumentality to Kene Nwangwu, giving New York the shot astatine the Broncos' 24-yard enactment for another. But the Jets...