In every trial, the defense for Denver never rests.

The Broncos’ Sacknados caused havoc, chaos, disaster and another turnover, and victory, at the finish Sunday.

Four in a row. An interception there, a fumble recovery here, a strong stop on fourth down, a knockdown, another pick, yet another fumble. The hits just keep on coming.

And Sacks Galore.

Rookie Shane Ray made his first sack Sunday and said: “Our mentality every week is to attack. We want to make it as difficult as we possibly can on an opposing offense. That’s how you win, just being relentless.”

Three minutes into the Broncos’ entanglement with the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, safety T.J. Ward slammed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater for a 15-yard loss, forcing a punt. With 35 seconds left in the game, Ward again flew into the backfield and strip-sacked Bridgewater, forcing a fumble and the end of the Vikings’ hopes and dreams.

Rest in peace, Ragnar.

On the sideline before the last stand, “DeMarcus (Ware) brought us all up and said, “We have to make a play to win this game, and if that ball gets on the ground again we have to recover it this time,’ and that’s what happened,” Ward said. “I think there was about six guys that made huge plays.”

In between T.J.’s sacks, the Broncos’ defense had five others. The last time the Broncos had more than seven was 19 years ago.

The Broncos now own 18 sacks in four games, a pace that would tie the NFL record of 72 set by the Chicago Bears in 1984. The “D” in Denver had one more sack, a club sandwich of Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware and Malik Jackson, that was called off because of a defensive holding penalty. And the league’s No. 1 defense probably would have produced three or more more sacks if Bridgewater hadn’t been such a nifty getaway man.

Afterward, those guys on the side of the locker room reserved for defensive linemen and linebackers were celebrating the fourth consecutive taut, tense triumph and trying to figure out who deserved the most sacks, as if they worked at the checkout counter at King Soopers. “”Well, when they look at the film, I’m getting that one instead of you,” Jackson was saying to Sylvester Williams.

Down the hall coach Gary Kubiak was describing his team as humble.

“Humble?” I said.

“Humble in the locker room,” Kubiak said.

Various members of that humble team were saying: “”We are the best . . . We always step it up a notch in the fourth quarter . . . It’s better for our mental toughness because we always feel like we can win the game . . . When it’s on the line, we know we’re going to come through.”

Their biggest supporter may be quarterback Peyton Manning, who was talking about this defense even if he rarely sees it perform. He’s rather busy studying the pictures of the opposing defense when his own is on the field.

“I have a special appreciation for great defenses — and players like Adrian Peterson,” Manning said.

Except for one spectacular run on a fourth-on-1 for a 48-yard touchdown (untouched), Peterson was held in check by the Broncos. “We let him get away once, but, and I take responsibility for that, but, otherwise, I thought we did a good job on him,” the nose tackle, Williams, said.

Just when it seemed as if the Broncos had run out of fantastic finishes, Manning, who threw two costly interceptions, pushed the Broncos to a field goal and a 23-20 lead, and the defense got the turnover to win the game. Sound like Baltimore? Sound like Kansas City? Sound like Detroit?

This is beginning to sound repetitive.

The Vikings took possession at their 20 after the field goal, and moved to a first down just shy of midfield.

But, on second down, the Broncos came calling, with Ward driving Bridgewater down. The ball squiggled free, and Von Miller, who had gotten his own sack moments before, dove onto the ball.

The crowd sighed.

Get used to it.

The Broncos aren’t blowing out anybody, but there hasn’t been any blowback, either.

“It was a dogfight and I enjoyed it,” said Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall, “just like all the others. We can never rest.”

In 2015 the defense never rests, but it hasn’t lost.

Woody Paige: woody@woodypaige.com or @woodypaige