Sanchez was the last Jet to leave the locker room. He tugged on his dress shirt and cuff links, twisted a Windsor knot on his tie and tugged a jacket over that still sore and valuable right shoulder. He then fielded questions without shoes or pants.

– Greg Bishop, N.Y. Times.

Ah yes, the ol’ Ditka.

Athletes answer reporters’ questions in various stages of indecency all the time, but there’s certainly something notable and hilarious about a guy wearing a jacket and tie and no pants. It’s a great look and one I wish were permitted by SNY’s dress code, because f@#$ pants.

As for the Jets-Bills affair: It’s rare in an NFL game that I ever find myself feeling sorry for one team, but it was hard not to pity the Bills yesterday afternoon. Holy hell. The Jets played without Sanchez, Darrelle Revis, Antonio Cromartie, two starting offensive linemen, and their top two running backs and beat the Bills 38-7.

A bunch of dudes we haven’t heard from since Hard Knocks ran wild over Buffalo’s putrid defense. On the one drive Sanchez was in the game, when it was abundantly clear to everyone that he wasn’t going to be throwing any passes, the Bills still couldn’t stop the Jets’ ground game.

It’s difficult to read anything particularly meaningful from the game since so many of the Jets’ principle contributors were in parkas, but I’ll say this: Sitting Revis and Cromartie and Eric Smith was a great way to get the rest of the Jets’ secondary some reps, and the, ahh, secondary members of the secondary responded.

Recall that in the AFC Championship last year Peyton Manning worked over the Jets’ second and third cornerbacks. It bodes well for the Jets, I hope, that Dwight Lowery and Marquice Cole played so well yesterday. And it can’t hurt that they’ve got Cromartie in the fold this year, and that the Colts will be without Austin Collie and Dallas Clark.

But we’ll worry about that later in the week. For now, hooray Matt Slauson: