ESPN's Lisa Salters said that free agent RB Kareem Hunt and his representatives "reached out to ESPN" to set up the interview that aired on "Sunday NFL Countdown" ahead of the Week 13 games, according to Ben Strauss of the WASHINGTON POST. Salters said, "I've been doing 'Monday Night Football' for seven years now, so when he came into the league I did a couple of interviews with him for Monday night games. ... So I've spoken to him before, but we're not friends or anything like that. I think he felt that." Salters said "MNF" News Editor Jim Carr is the "backbone" of the "MNF" family, and he was the "person I wanted to reach out" to ahead of the Hunt interview. Salters said she and Carr "touched base" for about 20 minutes before she left to conduct the Hunt interview. Salters said she "formulated an outline of where I wanted to go in my head" with the interview while on the plane. Salters said that Hunt was "extremely remorseful," but that she "felt more emotion from him when the cameras were off." Salters: "I didn't spend a lot of time with him before; I was at his home for maybe a good half-hour before we started, but intentionally just kind of stayed away from him because I wanted our conversation to be authentic." More Salters: "When the interview was over we spent a couple minutes talking. I really could feel his remorse more then than I think it translated on camera. I don't know how much he helped himself or hurt himself" (WASHINGTON POST, 12/4).
