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By Emmanuel Williams

If you got up early in Mountain Standard Time you may have caught the Denver Broncos’ first touchdown drive full of incremental progress made handoff after handoff sealed with a pass to a wide receiver who walked right into the end zone.

By this time, the New York Jets had made two field goals for 6 points, followed by a Denver field goal for 3. The biggest story you would have heard from commentators was how the Jets had only been allowed one first down in the entire first half.

Denver 10 – Jets 6, at the half.

By now your coffee’s kicked in, so you go look at the standings and find out the Jets haven’t won a single game out of 5 this season, and the 3W-2L Broncos need every win they can get to pass the LA Chargers, also 3-2 in the AFC West division.

Chargers will face the Miami Dolphins at 11am (MST) on CBS.

The usual division leader for the past 3 years has been the Kansas City Chiefs, but this year they are 2W-3L before they see the Detroit Lions at 6pm (MST) on PeacockTV.

Back in London, the Denver Broncos put on a clinic in sacks (tackling the QB before he can get rid of the football). They currently lead the NFL in sacks and increased that lead by at least 8 more delivered to New York QB Justin Fields throughout the game.

Jets would score another field goal in the 3rd quarter, while the Broncos went scoreless until the 4th. Meanwhile they would allow for 2 points to be given to the Jets for having to line up in defense of their own end zone, and being penalized for “holding” the defense while in the end zone.

A rare occasion for the rulebook that handed the lead over to the Jets.

Turnovers, sacks, hand off after hand off after handoff for very little to no gain, mostly by the Broncos who have been known by this fan to have relied far too heavily on the run play (run = handoff). It was even noted by commentator stats that Bo Nix had passed all through the first half, but didn’t for the entire 3rd quarter.

You know there’s an excited crowd when you hear football fans roaring like soccer fans (must be Tottenham Stadium’s acoustics!) to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond. Let the record show, they sounded “So good! So good! So good!”

The only successful drive in Q4 was as the Broncos first Q4 drive where they passed and pushed all the way to 1st and Goal, 2nd and Goal, 3rd and Goal, to then settle for a field goal.

Then it was back to sack, turnover, run game, then the Jets ran out of timeouts, Bo Nix got sacked himself once, but the Broncos had the last touch of the ball and let the clock run out with a final score of 13-11.

No huge plays, but a win is a win whether you’re playing by the mountains, or the Thames.

Go Broncos.