Hour 3: Miami Dolphins ‘4-Downs’ Preview, plus Joe Buck Talks ‘ESPN Jeopardy!’

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1:42Bay Area 49ers reporter Matt Mayoko. Coming up, ESPN Monday Night Football announcer and Jeopardy host Joe Buck. And now it's Rich Eisen.

1:57Rich Eisen:Our number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. We had a great chat with Steve Sarkeesian in our number one of this program. We also chopped it up with Matt Maioco about what's going on with the San Francisco 49ers. If you missed the first two hours of this program, where have you been? I don't mean to be aggressive. But there's also a backup plan for you. There's our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash richeyesenshow. 1.1 million followers there and growing um that's right disney plus uh as soon as we're over all three hours can be viewed there there's our podcast if you want to listen to it there's just lots of you're out of excuses is basically what i'm saying um i don't know again why i'm being so aggressive well we're in aggressive time no i got my workout in today maybe i'm for the endorphins are flying love it yeah love it um 844-204-rich is the number to dial i adore this man i don't care who knows it but i've known him for a very long time i'm very excited for everything about his world and uh success uh the voice of monday night football um now the host of espn jeopardy um and and he's a complete and total frick whoa whoa award winner oh award winner my bet joe buck everybody hey joe hi everybody hi joe how many people just went zoinks what did you call it oh he's a ford frick winner oh he's you already got the roselle in his back pocket two halls of fame joe congratulations brother on that well that's what it's all about personal accolades there is no eye in in joe or buck um no that's true uh or jack or buck or nepotism oh wait there is uh come on man no it's it's been it's been a nice run i'm no longer the thank you i'm no longer the 27 year old doing the world series i'm the old man now i've got a gray beard I've got dyed hair.

4:02I've got hair transplanted to the top of my head. But I'm in two halls of fame. So, hey, you know, yay me.

4:09Rich Eisen:Dude, what were you thinking here? I mean, by the way, listen, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, you're already in there. This one, I mean, you're in a meadow right there in Cooperstown. What's going through your head, dude, like as you're looking out here on this happened this past weekend, if I'm not mistaken? That is a look of a man who just said, oh, my God, I can't believe they didn't boo me. Yeah, you know, it's funny. It was a really heartwarming weekend. And to stand up on that stage and to look out at those people that are there because they love baseball. You know, everybody's got their group.

4:47So you had the Beltran group and you had the – yeah, I'd thrown my tie. Somebody in the parade route said, where's the candy? You're supposed to be throwing candy. So I threw in my tie.

4:57Rich Eisen:Are you serious? Is that what happened? Yeah. Yeah. Dude. Yeah. The good thing is I bought the tie off Instagram and within like an hour, the thing was filtered back at me. So I bought it back. So the fun thing was, you know, being there in 1987 with my mom and my sister sitting in the crowd when my dad got this award. And then to flash forward 39 years and my mom and my sister are in the crowd with my kids, both my older daughters and my little boys and Michelle. And it was it was so fun. And Cooperstown is just an amazing place that it feels stuck in time in the best possible way. And for us to all be there together, my son in law, you know, my my sister's family it was just great so i it was a lot of fun it's so deserved brother i'm so happy for you that's it well that's when you and i first met that's right back during the world series in 96 was it not yep 96 that's what it was you were doing your first world series i was doing sports center and um it's it's so cool uh and i'm i'm i'm just happy for you you deserve it you deserve it even though didn't you once upon a time take a steroid to get through a broadcast though like with your voice?

6:13Rich Eisen:I did, but I think it was, you still got it. I did. I am on the list. I was on the list. I took a, yeah, I did. I got a shot. I got up off the deck. It was in Philly for an NFC championship game. I think it was an Eagles Panthers game. And, uh, and I, I woke up, I could not talk. I couldn't make a sound. I went to an ENT genius in Philly. The guy gave me a steroid injection. I don't know what kind of steroid that is. Whatever it was, I'm a big fan. I could talk by 7 p.m. that night. But it's on your plaque, so at least everyone knows about it now, right? There's an asterisk on it. Yeah, exactly.

6:50Yes.

6:52Rich Eisen:Oh, my gosh. ESPN Jeopardy, baby. Here we go. Real quick. The exclamation point in Jeopardy is silent. Correct, Joe? Right. Not to me. Not to me. I shouted from the mountaintops. I've been doing it all week. It's a fun show. The cool thing is, and I kind of stumped for this, was to get guys like Jon Hamm on it, Keegan-Michael Key, Adam Pally, mixing in with SportsCenter people and NFL Network people and Where Were You, Rich, When I Needed You Most. But it's a fun, you know, the good thing, I got to do a week when Alex Trebek passed away. And it is the same process. It's the same writers who turned their brilliant minds to sports.

7:40The clues are written the same way, kind of convoluted, trying to trip you up a little bit. But it is all sports, and some fared really well, some surprised, some fared not so well, but laughed their way through it. And it's just – it's 10 episodes of a really fun Jeopardy show all about sports.

8:01Rich Eisen:Look at that shot right there, man. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. uh and and i like that shot send me that yeah well we get i got you i got you i'll be able to yeah i got you just text it to me i'll be my new screensaver we got the assets for you don't worry we'll send that to you all right thank you how is ham any good uh i don't know what i'm allowed to say oh okay that's true all right yeah i i will say that John Hamm represented himself extremely well. Okay. Like, like extremely well. I would imagine Hamm would take this very seriously. Like he, he, he would want to come and dominate like that. I would see that.

8:43Well, you know, John and I've known John since we were in middle school and that's true. Right.

8:47Rich Eisen:Middle school, middle school. Yeah. Well, we were like late middle school into, uh, into high school. So crazy, crazy story. my best friend in high school Preston Clark his little sister Sarah who is an actor in her own right she was on 24 she was in the Twilight movies I just saw her on a CBS show this week so she's still working and doing great and makes us all proud but in middle school high school she dated Jon Hamm and in college she had dated Paul Rudd so that's how I know Rudd and there's a young Jon Hamm there's my guy But John back then was the guy that everybody wanted on their Trivial Pursuit team.

9:31He is his recollection, his retention. He is a genius. He's extremely smart. He knows sports. He was the perfect contestant for that show. And I will say again, and I will underline and highlight it, he does extremely well.

9:50Rich Eisen:Okay. Hey, Ken Jennings meets Don Draper, basically, is what you're saying right there. That's what it is. That's exactly what it is. I'm trying to pick up what you're putting down right here. Yeah. That's cool. That's very good. And that's on Disney Plus and Hulu. It's on Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN app. Of course. And hopefully, if it does well, we do more and we continue. But we'll see. I don't know why it wouldn't. I mean, that's up to you, the viewing public. Why wouldn't it do well? Same people that missed the first hour, two hours of your show that you berated when we came on here at the top of the hour it's up to them to watch this thing so that we get to do more and then i would imagine it would evolve into just you know very smart people about sports not sports center anchors or john ham to be contestants going forward i would think i would think too by the way perfect way to put it disney plus hulu's uh espn jeopardy when do you uh when do you uh go back to work for a living we i don't know and my i get to come out of my semi retirement uh my coma that i've been in for the last x number of months this is it man because it ends in the booth for the super bowl right here just up the road joe this morning i read this morning espn abc has the super bowl this year yes i wrote i made a note of it i wrote it down i thought you would lead off with that because that's breaking news but we uh we yeah which is a great place to have it as you know that stadium's amazing the booth is great the booth has a bathroom within it uh which is always paramount and something i worry about uh anytime i'm doing a big event uh it checks all the boxes and i think it's going to be it's going to be a great year it's going to be a lot of fun the answer is august 20th we have a preseason game uh it's in houston and i'm not 100 sure who they play no joe not to correct you but the answer is when is august when is august 20th in houston who do they play i mean if the answer you gotta be it's gotta be in the form of a question joe otherwise i'm not gonna accept the answer well only in only in double jeopardy and in this in in regular jeopardy we accept that i admonish them in double jeopardy that's a no-go and this show is an hour long so there's triple jeopardy also you have to do it in the form of a question or i just sit there and if your time runs out your time runs out uh what what i guess the the answer is what what is uh what is raiders against texas there it is that's your answer there it is my man fernando yeah all of us are you guys uh i hope he's i hope he plays the whole damn game god How much do you love Kurt Cignetti, Joe?

12:39Rich Eisen:I mean, what a blessing. He is a beauty in every possible way. Have you met him? Have you chatted with him? I met him. Yeah, I don't want to rub this one in, but it was not this past season, but the one before I went to the Michigan game at IU. It's all right. Which, I mean, you know, it doesn't matter. Michigan, whoever. To see that stadium jammed and to meet him on the field beforehand, And he walked me through kind of exactly what happened was going to happen in the game. And it happened. I am I'm blown away. And I feel like he's just a really unique guy. I feel like he's got a little bit of a wry smile on his face with everything he does.

13:18And I've never seen a man stand on a sideline the way he does with his hands on his hips and his hands out. It's just the most unique look by it. That's kind of it. There it is. by any head coach in any sport. But I love him, and thank God he's at IU.

13:37Rich Eisen:No doubt, right? I mean, just what a dream come true. You couldn't have imagined, right? Couldn't have imagined. I mean, it's like, okay, we got another guy, and we're going to do it again. And then he went to an IU basketball game, and he said Purdue sucks and everybody else sucks. And I was like, okay, it's all bluster. And then he backed it up. I mean, the team was really good two seasons ago and then obviously did what they did last year. So, yeah, am I a bandwagon guy? Kind of. But when I was there and I was there for almost four full years, I left when I got the Cardinal gig. I was a season ticket holder.

14:16We were good. We had Trent Green. We had Anthony Thompson. Bill Mallory was our head coach. It was a good program then and then kind of hit the skids. and I would pay attention a little bit. But, you know, now that Cignetti's there, I'm like all in.

14:32Rich Eisen:And your Jeopardy paycheck paid for which wide receiver this fall, Joe? Yes. Yeah, I funneled everything I got from ESPN Jeopardy. I funneled right into player procurement at Indiana University. Yes, roster retention. That's what Joe Buck's all about, guys. You knew that. Again, we already established he's a team player. We already established to start this fall. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And the first Monday night game, oh, Mahomes. It's a good one. There we go. Mahomes is in 11-on-11 drills already and, like, hopping around with a knee brace on his leg. And, you know, please have Mr. Nix on the other side with his ankle and all that stuff going on.

15:09So it was a bit of a – I think that happened. I would think. I mean, I would think. But, you know, that's a heck of a matchup to come out of the gate with provided both quarterbacks are there.

15:19Rich Eisen:And look at those two Rams logos in the first five weeks. we're going to start and we're starting a new segment here on the show called is he back yet um and that's gonna that's that's number 99 in your program i think he's coming back seems like it i mean you know more than i do you cover this stuff every day but if he wasn't coming back it's a lot of noise a lot of photo ops pads and we've watched it at least i have on instagram or wherever i've seen it watch him work out over the past couple of years i mean he is just a freak and he and Miles Garrett and then a revamped secondary with Chris Shula putting it all together.

16:00I mean, they are going to be phenomenal.

16:02Rich Eisen:And then, of course, that week three in Chicago, that's going to be a big one for all of us to see if Caleb meets with you before the game. Joe, what do you think? I'm on the edge. Yeah, me too. I'm so worried about that. Yeah. So that's a good game. Let's move on. And then we've got Dallas at Philly not too far after that, which is – that's just a game we haven't had. I had every year at Fox, and we haven't had that game until this year five at Monday Night Football and ESPN. So that's a big one for us to get. I honestly thought, speaking of the Bears, that game on November 2nd, Bears at Seahawks, I thought that was going to be the opener.

16:47Rich Eisen:I really thought the league would put that as game number one for the banner raise. Yeah, that's a good game. It's a great game. And then we've got Dallas. We have Dallas at Seattle. Yeah, you do. So we've got two great Dallas games, both on the road and both against playoff quality teams. By the way, this is historic, our little visit here, because this is the first time that I've done any interview in what is my new office for the next year and a half in a rented house in Denver, Colorado. That's why it's kind of barren back there. This is our first day. Michelle's in the other room a-rumphing and cursing my name because it's just boxes that are filing in, and I'm in here talking to you.

17:40So if it's okay, I'd like to be on for the rest of the show and tomorrow's show, and I'll sit here. I'll just wait until you come to the house. I have follow-up questions. I have follow-up questions.

17:50Rich Eisen:So is that lamp a renter lamp? Or does it come with the place? No, this is somebody's home. Oh. Great guy. Great guy. We got to meet. No, he is. And then he buried the lead. We meet with him. We're walking around the house. House is phenomenal. And then at the end, he's like, oh, I'm from St. Louis, by the way. and your sister, Julie, was in my sister, Jimmy's sister's class at Westminster High School. And yeah, they were good friends. And your sister let her borrow a prom dress, which is like this smallest world of all time. But if I were him, I would have led with that. But we were the ones that were on, you know, in audition because he wants to make sure that we're not like lunatics coming into his beautiful home so i mean just just ultimately stick the landing it would have been amazing if the prom she went to the prom with john ham or paul rudd that would just close the entire circle no he was a taken man at that point with sarah clark that would not have worked that would have been terrible does michelle want to hop on here does she want to pop in do you want to hey meatloaf right ah you know michelle far too well to know that that's not it get me that's not it punched in the side of the head yeah no suz is in the other room she's coming out shortly for women's sports now so we could have had the whole reunion from uh yes from you have no idea i mean we love rich we love suzy more so but i've heard that so many times it's it's off the charts par for the um all right joe buck uh congrats again on being a total frick um i don't know why i keep saying that again i just woke up dangerous i'm like baker um congrats on the ford frick congrats on um the uh espn jeopardy exclamation point gig um yes july there's a happy fella look at you man no there's a that's not a recent photo no beard joe where did they get that i what do you mean that was taking the day of taping number one is that right 100 yeah it was a month ago damn it was a month ago that's nice so you you shaved for espn jeopardy you shaved for espn jeopardy i whittled it down i never shave i use a i use a clipper i can't i can't go smooth anymore smooth sucks it makes me feel old okay uh you're the best joe say hi to Michelle.

20:18Rich Eisen:Susie sends her best as well, and I hope to see you soon. I hope to see you soon. All right, guys. What happened? What's going on? Oh, look at that. You have a little thing there, too. This was the first thing I brought to the rent. This has been on my desk since I was in fifth grade. The buck stops here. That's outstanding. Was that Harry Truman? It was. It was Harry Truman. Who is? Who is? It's not what is. I'm the only human that's been referred to in the history of Jeopardy as a what. What's Eisen? Yeah, that was the answer. What's Eisen? Yeah, that was the answer, not who is Eisen. What's Eisen?

21:01But in Jeopardy, as I'm sure you know, because you're a fanatic for Jeopardy, as long as it's a question, you can say, you know, what is Rich Eisen? They will accept that.

21:14Rich Eisen:Okay. See, you're the authority there as well. Good to see you, pal. Be well. Good to see you and everybody else, although I've only seen you. I just assume that there are other people there. There's Chris. Hey, Joe. Yeah, hey, Chris. How are you? Mike, say hi to – oh, that's TJ. What's up, Joe? Say hi to Joe and his new rent-a-house. And another one of his oldest friends. Mike Del Tufo. That's Mike. Yeah, I know Del Tufo. I knew that – okay. It's good to see that space. Did you once upon a time forget to open his mic? No. Are you sure? Oh, yes, on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Very big. Do you remember that Thanksgiving, Joe, where your mic wasn't open?

21:51Yeah, you and Troy weren't open for a second. Come on. Nope. That was me. I don't remember even being there.

21:58Rich Eisen:Yeah. Yep. That's why I love Joe. And that's what Jerry Steinberg started screaming at you. Yes. Yes. Only mistake I made on the NFL and Fox in eight years. Is that right? That is a correct answer. What is almost perfect? ladies and gentlemen wow that's the way we say goodbye to joe buck almost perfect all right thanks guys great movie all right joe great movie great movie with uh billy crudup was in almost perfect right wasn't it yeah almost famous okay wow i knew that it goes off the rails every time i'm not gonna like tell me who's gonna win the Super Bowl, Joe. Which is not going to happen.

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