Admittedly, it’s been a bit of a slow news week.

First Jay treated us to a fabulous summary of a column that previously appeared on CBS Sportsline. This morning we got a warmed-over Grossman column.

If there’s a real story here, it’s Rex giving the Tribune Company’s spending habits and Ozzie Guillen’s mouth a run for it as Jay’s most popular fallback column.

Rex made his first public comments since the Super Bowl this week while accepting an award in Baltimore. When the subject of the media came up, here’s what Rex had to say:

‘’What I’ve noticed in this league is that it’s exaggerated in both ways. The media would never tell you if you’re just good. You’re either great or you’re terrible,’’ Grossman said. ‘’People have a short memory, especially if you aren’t established in this league.

‘’In some of those games, I was bad. I had 13 or 14 games I’m extremely proud of and five or six that were really bad. After those really bad games, they wanted to kick me out of the league. And it wasn’t that long after I was Offensive Player of the Month. The swings of criticism were much bigger than swings in my play.’’

To be fair, I’d say the swings in play and in coverage were pretty much on par. But Rex admitted he was bad.  Really bad. If he wants to make some fairly innocuous comments about the build-them-up, tear-them-down culture of sports media, I think he’s entitled.

Not surprisingly, Jay responds with a reference to Britney Spears.

Not to call him delusional or anything, but a Britney Spears mood meter displays more stability than a Rex Grossman performance chart.

Has Britney Spears done something to indicate that she’s emotionally unstable? I had no idea. If only US Weekly would step up and finally make Jay that offer he couldn’t refuse.

Jay goes on to tell us what we’ve already heard 10,000 times by now about Rex Grossman’s inconsistency last year.  By the way, he didn’t play well in the Super Bowl, either.  Not sure if you remembered that.

Like most of Chicago, I have my doubts about Grossman next year.  How could you not?  But given that he did, for better or worse, get to the Super Bowl in his first full season, I think it merits a chance to make things right.

If we’re still talking about consistency problems at midseason, I think the Bears finally make the switch to Brian Griese.

But that switch will be about Rex Grossman’s play on the field. Not about him “saying all the right things” to appease vultures like Marioitti.