Chris Russo slams ABC for putting Michael Strahan in impossible situation with horrific Bill Belichick interview

Chris “Mad Dog” Russo summed up ABC’s strategy behind Bill Belichick’s sit-down on “Good Morning America” last Friday in one word: “Horrific.”When dissecting the Q&A between “GMA” anchor Michael Strahan and UNC’s new football coach — whose romance with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson has been widely scrutinized — the sports media personality slammed the exchange as “one of the most awkward interviews I’ve ever seen in my life.”“What ABC did there, ABC gave carte blanche to Belichick.‘Bill, we want you on, tell us what questions you want asked.’ Horrific,” Russo said Monday on “The Rich Eisen Show,” guest-hosted by Suzy Shuster.“… ABC was horrific that essentially, they sold their journalism chops to make sure Belichick, cause he was in the news, was on the air.

That was a horrific job by a worthy news organization and then they put Strahan in a tough spot because we all know Strahan and again, he’s not Mike Wallace, he’s an ex-football player, no knock against Strahan, but that’s an impossible situation.”While promoting his new book, “The Art of Winning,” Belichick, 73, was asked by Strahan, 53, about the attention his romance with Hudson, a former college cheerleader, has received.“She’s been terrific through the whole process, and she’s been really helpful to me,” Belichick said of the Miss Maine USA hopeful.“She does the business things that don’t relate to North Carolina that come up in my life, so I can concentrate football and that’s really what I want to do.”When pressed about what Hudson means to him, Belichick relayed he’s happy and that he’s “not talking about personal relationships.”Although Strahan’s nine-minute conversation with Belichick touched upon Patriots anecdotes in the book, Russo wanted more on the controversies entangled with the coach’s legacy, including the 7-year-old mystery of why Malcolm Butler was benched in Super Bowl 2018.“If you’re going to hav...