LAS VEGAS>> The Broncos just keep on winning.

The latest: A 24-17 win that may look close on paper but really was Denver’s most comfortable in weeks.

Sean Payton’s team has won 10 straight and moved to 11-2 overall on the night in which Kansas City’s nine-year run atop the AFC West officially ended in Houston.

However, the Broncos’ stretch run is by no means easy. Denver plays 9-3-1 Green Bay and 9-4 Jacksonville at home, the 6-7 Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on Christmas night and then the 10-4 Los Angeles Chargers to close the regular season.

Buckle up. December and January are going to be a wild ride.

Before all that, here are thoughts from Denver polishing off a second straight season sweep of the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium.

Bo Nix is heating up at just the right time for the Broncos.

He perhaps hasn’t put together any single game that’s provided the “wow” factor like a couple of outings — Atlanta and Carolina in particular — during his rookie season.

There was a four-touchdown shredding of Dallas in Week 8, though the Cowboys’ defense at the time ranked among the NFL’s very worst and played like it. There was the frantic, prolific fourth quarter against the New York Giants, but it came after 45 minutes of dormancy.

Nix has only topped a 100 quarterback rating in games twice so far this season after hitting that mark four times in Denver’s first 11 games last year and seven times overall.

Make no mistake, though, the Broncos are getting better play from their second-year signal-caller in recent weeks.

The baseline: Nix is back to completing passes at a high clip.

Through Denver’s first 10 games, Nix completed 60.9% of his passes overall The past three weeks, that number’s jumped to 70%. That’s powered by a 31-of-38 outing against the Raiders here on Sunday, but it’s nonetheless a rhythm he feels himself getting into.

“I feel great,” Nix said Sunday. “I feel like — you mentioned the last three games and I feel like I’ve seen the field very well the past three games. Just understood where outlets are, understood where the ball needs to go. You can always say you missed this one or missed that one, but if you’re moving forward and finding completions … that’s what we’ve been willing to do the past several weeks.”

The Broncos have not made many big plays throwing the ball deep down the field in recent weeks. Nix averaged a season-low 4.7 air yards per attempt last week against Washington and Sunday against the Raiders he directed 27 of his 38 passes to targets at 10 yards down the field or shallower, according to Next Gen Stats. He completed 26 of them.

Nix was perfect on 17 attempts targeting players lined up in the backfield or the slot and pushed just three passes — all incompletions — 20 yards down the field or more.

“The explosives will come,” Nix said Sunday. “And we’ve got to find ways to push the ball down the field, but defenses keep you from trying to do that, too.

“So it’s a happy balance.”

Nix is playing with that same kind of balance in recent weeks. Certainly there are decisions he’d like back. An interception thrown right at Commanders’ linebacker Bobby Wagner’s chest in Washington or a scramble early on Sunday against the Raiders in which he could have waltzed into the end zone on his own. Instead he held the ball, faded to the sideline and threw the ball away. The the Broncos took a delay of game penalty immediately after.

A touchdown turned into third-and-goal at the 8 yard line.

Nix, naturally, made up for it on a designed quarterback draw — a message, perhaps, from head coach Payton.

Nix scampered up the middle behind blocks by center Luke Wattenberg and left guard Alex Palczewski — to pay dirt.

Nix’s numbers the past three weeks aren’t spectacular by any stretch. But as he finds more and more rhythm playing without injured running back J.K. Dobbins and Denver continues to find ways to win the game, there becomes less and less to nit pick.

You might call Nix a game manager, and he’d be just fine with that.

“It’s become a negative thing,” Nix said of the moniker. “I don’t know why because the best quarterbacks of all time manage the game at a high level. The biggest difference is when the time comes down to it, they find ways to make either an explosive or make another play. All the good ones, all the great ones that win, they manage the game at a high level. Some are just more flashy and they don’t have that tag, but it really doesn’t matter because our job as a quarterback is execute the play that’s called, get your team in the end zone and at the end of the day have more points than the other team and find a way to win.

“That’s what we’re finding ways to do.”