In the New York Jets’ 9th game of the 2021 season the Jets were crushed by a Buffalo Bills team that completely outclassed them, 45 – 17.

The Jets Mike White QB Experiment reached an unfortunate but unsurprising conclusion as Gang Green suffered yet another bludgeoning.

The Jets were dominated on both sides of the ball. Jets QB Mike White threw four interceptions and the Jets defense looked helpless to stop anything the Bills and their QB Josh Allen were doing on offense.

The Bills lead swelled to an all but insurmountable 31 – 3 early in the third quarter and the rout was on.

The rest of the game was just extended garbage time. The Bills showed why they are in first place and the Jets showed why they are in last place today.

Cam Newton is back in Carolina.

The former MVP agreed to a contract with the Panthers: the one-year deal is worth up to $10 million with $4.5 million guaranteed and a $1.5 million roster bonus, according to multiple reports.

Newton, whom the Panthers selected No. 1 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft, has been unsigned this year since the Patriots cut him in training camp. He didn’t do much last year with the Patriots, throwing for 2,657 yards and rushing for 592 as the team struggled to adjust to life without Tom Brady.

The Panthers, though, have struggled to adjust to life without Newton.

Sam Darnold isn’t the answer at quarterback. The former Jet, for whom the Panthers dealt a second-round pick and is expected to miss four-to-six weeks with a shoulder injury, has thrown 11 interceptions to seven touchdowns. He’s averaging just 6.5 yards per attempt. PJ Walker was in line to be Carolina’s starter before the Newton reunion.

On Sunday, the 50th New York City Marathon brought out 30,000 entrants — down 40 percent from the usual 50,000, thanks to COVID — and the thousands of spectators who turned out to cheer the runners on.

“To me, it just shows the power of the city itself,” Bruna Martins, who ran the marathon for the third time, told The New York Times. “This year, after everything we’ve been through, if anything, people are just going to be really excited out there.”

Another great sign: Billy Joel returned Friday night as Madison Square Garden’s resident Piano Man after 21 months away.

“Sorry that we shut everything down,” Joel told the crowd, “but we’re back.”