After their loudest, most lopsided victory at home since some dude named Peyton Manning played quarterback, you better Bo-lieve the Broncos are H-O-T-T-O-G-O for the NFL playoffs.

With Atlanta in town, Denver beat the F out of the Alcons 38-6 Sunday.

A warm-fuzzy rout that felt like Colorado sunshine on their shoulders pushed the Broncos’ record to 6-5.

Wait … what?

You want to remind me Denver was also 6-5 at this point in the NFL schedule a year ago.

Well, my good peeps, I’m here to tell you:

This time the Broncos are for real, instead of a fraud waiting to be revealed.

“It’s different this year,” linebacker Jonathon Cooper told me in the Denver locker room. “We’re a better team than we were last year, offensively and defensively. And I still don’t think we’ve played our best football.”

The major difference between these legit Broncos and those pretenders of the recent past?

Well, John Franklin-Myers turned the defensive line into a brick house. The emergence of Riley Moss as a Pro Bowl cornerback alongside Pat Surtain and Ja’Quan McMillan evokes a No Fly Zone sense of deja vu.

“We’ve got to keep stacking victories to get to where we want to go,” Cooper said. “You’re remembered in this league for what you do in November and December, because that’s when us and everybody else in the NFL is working for the playoffs.”

The biggest reason to Bo-lieve the Broncos can keep stacking?

Coach Sean Payton now has a quarterback he loves in Nix, whose campaign for Offensive Rookie of the Year gets stronger every week.

That’s a far cry from a year ago, when every move Russell Wilson made and every breath he took caused o much steam to pour from the ears of Payton you knew it was only a matter of time before the coach blew his top like Kīlauea.

If the four touchdown passes Nix threw against the Falcons, combined with 307 yards on an 85 percent completion clip with no interceptions felt like something you don’t see very often from a rookie quarterback, there’s a reason for that.

No rookie quarterback in league history has ever combined so many tasty stats in a single game.

When did Nix realize this was going to be his day?

“When I woke up this morning,” he said.

And when was the last time the Broncos’ barn shook with such good vibrations for a regular-season game?

The year was 2014. The price of a dozen eggs was $2.02. During the final home date of the regular season, Peyton Manning threw for 273 yards, as Denver beat the silver and black out of the hated Rai-duhs 47-14.

When the Broncos earn a playoff berth for the first time in nearly a decade, we will look back fondly and see the path went through Payton’s old stomping grounds in the NFC South, where he used to be the grand poobah of Bourbon Street.

After grounding the Falcons, by limiting their rushing attack to 50 yards and teeing off on quarterback Kirk Cousins, Payton not only swept his former employer in New Orleans and the Saints’ three divisional neighbors, the Broncos won the four games in a 125-37 landslide.

“I could say something smart,” said Payton, fighting the urge to let his snark out to bark. “But I’m not going to right now.”

In a league that’s all about stacking victories one week at a time, the Broncos can’t afford to get ahead of themselves.

But caution won’t stop me from telling you this team now has a glorious opportunity to all but clinch a playoff spot before you finish your Christmas shopping.

The cliche in this league is: You are what your record says you are.

But not all 6-5 teams are created equal.

These Broncos are different than the team that couldn’t wait to bench Wilson.

If you don’t believe me, take it on the word of receiver Courtland Sutton

“To be in this position right now, there’s a lot of promise. There’s a lot ahead of us,” Sutton said. “I think everyone is feeling that energy.”

And the vibe is stoked with a genuine confidence missing a year ago.

“If we just lock in and take care of what we’ve got to take care of, I don’t have to do anybody else’s job, I do my job, everybody else does their job, we all lean on each other and we’re going to be able to get to where we want to go,” Sutton said.

The next three foes on Denver’s schedule are Las Vegas, Cleveland and Indianapolis, with the last two dates at home. The combined record of those teams? 14-22.

If the Broncos take care of business, they will wake up on Dec. 16 with a 9-5 record in a season when it’s very likely nine W’s will be sufficient to end the team’s eight-year playoff drought.

Cue the Chappell Roan anthem that’s harder to avoid these days than Starbucks.

Because why fight it?

It’s safe to get up and dance, Broncos Country.

The NFL playoffs are calling. And your team is H-O-T-T-O-G-O.