“Do you see the Freeh report differently now than you did at the time?”

“Oh yes, very much so.”

Those words came from Emmy-winning journalist Bob Costas last week in a radio interview with Kevin Slaten of KQQZ in St. Louis. Costas spoke at length to Slaten about his evolving opinion of the Freeh report, Joe Paterno’s legacy, and the Penn State situation as a whole in what is some of the most balanced rhetoric I’ve heard from a national media source about the Sandusky scandal.

Costas has been on top of this story from the start, most notably in his infamous interview with Sandusky after he was arrested in November. When the Freeh report was released this June, Costas said publicly that Penn State should shut down the football program for a year and claimed that Joe Paterno was complicit in a coverup.

With the benefit of time, Costas is rethinking his opinion on the entire matter. You can listen to the entire clip here but below are some of the key excerpts from the interview.