Jets QB Justin Fields loses his helmet while being tackled by Denver's Jonathon Hooper during Sunday's game in London. (AP photo)

LONDON (AP) — It seemed every time Patrick Surtain II looked, his Denver Broncos teammates were sacking Justin Fields.

“I was sitting back watching it, being a fan of it,” the star cornerback said. “It was a pleasure to watch.”

The Broncos took down Fields nine times, with the final sack sealing an ugly 13-11 victory over the winless New York Jets on Sunday.

Bo Nix threw an early touchdown pass and Wil Lutz kicked a late go-ahead field goal as the Broncos (4-2) won their third in a row.

The victory completed a long road trip for the Broncos, who left for London right after their 21-17 comeback victory over the then-undefeated Eagles in Philadelphia last week. Sunday was beginning to look like the “trap game” that Denver was trying to avoid.

“The most important thing was coming here and getting the win — it didn’t matter how it looked,” said linebacker Nik Bonitto, who entered as the NFL’s co-leader in sacks and added one to bring his total to eight. “Being able to start 4-2 is a big deal.”

The Broncos found themselves trailing 11-10 after conceding a safety in the third quarter against a Jets team that managed just 82 total net yards on offense.

Nix, who was 19 of 30 for 174 yards, led Denver on a 12-play, 65-yard drive that ended with Lutz’s 27-yard field with just over five minutes left.

Despite a horrendous offensive display, the Jets (0-6) still had the ball with a chance to drive for a potential winning score.

But Fields was sacked by Jonathon Cooper and Justin Strnad on fourth-and-8 from the Denver 44 after Aaron Glenn opted to go for it rather than send out Nick Folk for a long field-goal attempt. Folk was 3 for 3 on the day.

Fields struggled all game against Denver’s dominant defense, completing nine of 17 passes for just 45 yards. The Jets finished with minus-10 net yards passing, the fewest in franchise history — also the fewest allowed by the Broncos in their history. It was also the fewest in any NFL game since the Chargers had minus-19 against the Kansas City Chiefs in Ryan Leaf’s third career start in 1998.

“Our passing game was non-existent,” Glenn said.

Glenn is still searching for his first victory after last week becoming the first Jets coach to begin his tenure with five losses. The Jets, the league’s lone winless team, are now 0-6 for the third time in their history, joining the 2020 and 1996 squads.

The Broncos took a 10-6 lead at the end of the first quarter.

Nix pump-faked to the flat and then found a wide-open Nate Adkins near the sideline for a 16-yard touchdown. The Broncos had kept the drive alive when Nix hit Evan Engram for an 11-yard gain on a fourth-and-5 from the Jets 47.

Engram led Denver with five receptions for 42 yards.

Broncos coach Sean Payton acknowledged it wasn’t pretty. Denver was 5 of 15 on third down and had six penalties that helped stall drives.

“We had a number of errors,” he said. “There will be a lot of us that want to clean some stuff up.”

The Broncos added to their league-leading total by swarming Fields all game. Cooper had two, Strnad had 1 1/2.

The Jets managed just one sack. They have just four in the past five games.

What just happened?

The Jets took an improbable 11-10 lead on a safety in the third quarter after Austin McNamara’s punt pinned the Broncos on their 3.

On first down, Quinn Meinerz was whistled for holding — enforced in the end zone for a safety.

In another unusual scenario, the Jets had let the clock run out at the end of the first half. They moved the ball to their 47 with about 30 seconds left, but on fourth-and-1, let the clock run out. They had no timeouts left but still could have heaved the ball into the end zone.

Wide receiver Garrett Wilson appeared agitated as he spoke to Glenn as the team walked to the locker room at halftime.

“I just didn’t know exactly what the plan was,” Wilson said. “Once I figured it out, I was disappointed.”

Glenn explained that since the Jets were receiving the kickoff to start the second half, he didn’t want to take any chances.

“Once it got to fourth down, I’m not about to sit there and try to get a play off, they get the ball back,” Glenn said. “Give them a chance to kick a field goal, that’s not the smartest thing to do. End the half, get the ball back, see if we get a chance to score.”

The Jets produced just 32 total net yards in the first half — fewest by any NFL team in the first two quarters this season.

CHARGERS 29, DOLPHINS 27

The Miami Dolphins were booed often by their home fans on Sunday. The boos could have been louder, but plenty of seats in the stadium were unoccupied.

Bad just keeps getting worse, and coach Mike McDaniel’s seat likely is getting even hotter.

Another close game, another loss for the Dolphins. The latest entry on the list was written Sunday, when the Los Angeles Chargers — who led by 13 midway through the fourth quarter — rallied to beat Miami 29-27 and drop the Dolphins to 1-5.

“There’s zero victory that would be considered moral,” McDaniel said.

The Dolphins could use a victory of any kind right now.

If a Week 5 loss at Carolina wasn’t gutting enough — up 17-0 early, then wasting the lead, falling behind, rallying to take the lead late before giving up the game-deciding score with 1:59 left — then this one was even worse.

The formula was similar: Miami led at the half, wasted the lead, got behind 26-13, got two touchdowns in the final 8:02 to take a 27-26 lead in the final minute — then gave up a 40-yard kickoff return and a 42-yard pass from Justin Herbert to Ladd McConkey. From there, the Dolphins could only watch helplessly as Cameron Dicker kicked a chip-shot field goal with 5 seconds.

“Shocked, I guess you could say,” quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said. “This is something that we’ve talked about collectively as a team about being able to finish in games like this where we have the opportunity to win the game. And it’s not just one side of the ball. It’s every phase.”

The Dolphins are 0-4 on Sundays this season. If that wasn’t bad enough, Tagovailoa pointed out they haven’t been great on other days of the week, either. He talked about how team leaders — meaning players, not McDaniel — have tried to work through some issues themselves, a process that hasn’t gone smoothly.

“We have guys showing up to player-only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player-only meetings,” Tagovailoa said. “There’s a lot that goes into that. … There’s a lot of things of that nature that we’ve got to get cleaned up.”

McDaniel said the players-only meetings are extra, and that he thought — in terms of team-mandated matters — the accountability has been good enough.

“It sounds like there was something on his mind with regard to the specific meetings with a couple individuals that he was trying to get corrected with direct communication,” McDaniel said. “I think that’s the only way to lead as far as where we’ve been at as a program.”

Throw out a 33-8 Week 1 loss at Indianapolis, since it was one-sided. The defeats since — a 10-point loss to Buffalo where Miami had the ball with a chance to tie late, a six-point loss to New England, a three-point loss to Carolina and now the two-point loss to the Chargers — have all seen the Dolphins fail to deliver after giving themselves a chance at the end.