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Tasked with interviewing Mike McCarthy as the Dallas Cowboys were getting blown out by the Baltimore Ravens, Erin Andrews began with an apology.<\/p>\n
With the Cowboys trailing Baltimore 21-6 at halftime,\u00a0playing terribly on both sides of the ball\u00a0and staring at a 1-2 start to their season, having to stop their head coach for an interview on his way out of the locker room is undoubtedly an awkward position to be in. And on the latest episode of their\u00a0Calm Down<\/em>\u00a0podcast,\u00a0Andrews told co-host Charissa Thompson\u00a0about her exchange with McCarthy during the Fox broadcast.<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday couldn\u2019t have been worse for the Dallas Cowboys, well it could have been worse, I did the game a couple days after their strength trainer passed away in front of all of them,\u201d Andrews recalled. \u201cI worked that game three days later and it was horrible.<\/p>\n \u201cBut in terms of a team struggling on both sides of the ball\u2026that is where we kind of earning our money as sideline reporters and feel bad if you have a heart as a broadcaster. Yes, it\u2019s part of the job, it\u2019s why these guys are paid. But standing in the hallway waiting for Mike McCarthy to come out after he addressed his team and trying to stop the bleeding on both sides of the ball in that Ravens-Cowboys game, I looked at him as he walked out and I said, \u2018Coach, I am so sorry.\u2019 And he goes, \u2018Why are you sorry? This is your job.\u2019 I loved him so much for that. He\u2019s just so lovely and sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n McCarthy has been on the hot seat in Dallas pretty much since Jerry Jones hired him to be the Cowboys head coach. And that seat has only gotten hotter as calls for the Cowboys to replace McCarthy with Bill Belichick\u00a0grow louder. All that to say, McCarthy shouldn\u2019t be rattled by having to answer a few questions from Andrews while his team was struggling at halftime.<\/p>\n The apology wasn\u2019t necessary, but it showed Andrews recognized the human element of being a head coach in the NFL while your season is in turmoil. McCarthy likely would have been respectful of the job Andrews was tasked with for Fox regardless, but you can\u2019t fault a coach for not wanting to be engaging down 21-6 halftime. And Andrews breaking the ice by addressing the uneasiness of having to do an interview in that spot was a pro move from arguably the best sideline reporter in sports media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tasked with interviewing Mike McCarthy as the Dallas Cowboys were getting blown out by the Baltimore Ravens, Erin Andrews began with an apology. With the Cowboys trailing… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n