When the going gets weird, the Broncos turn wacko.

“Every game we play is weird,” Denver coach Sean Payton said Wednesday.

Well, a football team does tend to take on the personality of its coach.

Payton is combative, condescending and if you scroll Russell Wilson’s timeline, the man who sets the tone from the Denver sideline is classless, to boot.

So maybe it should be no surprise Denver has become the most emotionally draining team in the NFL.

If the Broncos aren’t managing to blow two games they led every second of the fourth quarter except the last one, Bo Nix is leading end-of-game heroics too preposterous for even John Elway to believe.

After a comeback for the ages in the 33-32 victory against the New York Giants, Nix admitted he “crashed” after the game, exhausted physically and emotionally.

Penalized for more yards than any team in the league, they’ve become the beefin’ Broncos.

When Payton isn’t getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for leaving the sideline to jaw with the officials about a pass interference penalty, linebacker Dre Greenlaw is earning a one-game suspension for harassing a ref after the final whistle of a victory.

It’s all wild-and-crazy fun.

With a 5-2 record, Denver sits atop the AFC West standings.

It’s better to burn out than fade away.

But I’m not so certain the Broncos can go on this way, tempting fate and messing with the football gods on the regular.

The NFL season is a slog, not a sprint.

Emptying their emotional tank, the Broncos are running dangerously hot.

Just like their coach.

After Payton got swept away in the euphoria of watching Denver score all 33 of its points in the fourth quarter against the Giants, he took a moment during his postgame presser to offer a not-so-subtle kick to Wilson while he’s down with praise to the Giants for taking the starting QB job away from DangeRuss and giving it to rookie Jaxson Dart.

As every sports fan not living under a rock now knows, Wilson let his thumbs do the talking and quickly clapped back on X, by not only calling Payton “classless,” but reminding him of the Bountygate scandal from his days coaching the New Orleans Saints.

Calling for a ceasefire to the Twitter war he started, Payton insisted Wednesday in “no way, shape or form” did he mean any disrespect to a veteran quarterback he ran out of Denver.

And if you believe that pile of balderdash …

Payton is the Ricky Gervais of NFL trolls.

At the midway point of three exhibition games and 17 regular-season tilts, the Broncos would be advised to dial back the emotional heat a notch before they combust into a fiery orange ball.

You could make the case Denver is two bad plays away from being 7-0.

But the Broncos also need the humility to realize that with their sputtering starts on offense and an annoying proclivity for penalties, this could also be a 3-4 football team.

“Yeah, we’ve won a couple games. But we’re not there yet. There’s more work to be done and we can’t get comfortable,” veteran receiver Courtland Sutton said.

“If you don’t have the right guys and the right locker-room atmosphere to not allow guys to get comfortable, then you can get full. It’s just like a lion that’s eaten and wants to go take a nap. You don’t want to be that lion that’s eaten and is over there under the trees, kickin’ it.”

So, I felt compelled to ask:

Are there fat-and-happy lions kickin’ it between the walls of the Denver locker room?

“Nah, nah, nah,” Sutton replied. “We’re starving.”