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The Adam Schefter Podcast

Conquering Cancer & Playing Football

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Adam starts off this week's episode with a story about his disastrous Thanksgiving. After that, he sits down with 49ers Pro Bowl Offensive Tackle, Trent Williams, who details his battle with cancer and how his life and football have changed forever. Adam wraps up with some news and notes around the league including the latest on Kliff Kingsbury's job situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast.

0:12.3

As we head in to week 13, we will be joined today by the 49ers Pro Bowl offensive tackle,

0:24.9

Trent Williams, who has a new documentary coming out on Amazon, Apple TV, and iTunes on December 14th called Silverback, the Trent Williams story.

0:32.6

And for those who don't know the Trent Williams story, he was diagnosed with the sarcoma cancer

0:37.2

on his head that needed

0:38.3

to be removed and treated. It was life-threatening at one point in time. His comeback is inspirational.

0:44.5

And we'll talk to him about his documentary as well as the streak that the 49ers are now on as they

0:51.3

tried to make it to the postseason. And we'll look ahead to week 13 as well.

0:56.5

But we can't do that without first looking back at the week that was so memorable in so many different ways.

1:05.1

Now, for those of you who tuned into this podcast last week, we had on the great Tennessee Titans

1:10.6

offensive tackle tackle the former

1:12.8

Michigan alum, Taylor Luan. And you can go back and listen to the words, but Taylor Luan and

1:18.9

myself predicted that Michigan would prevail in its annual battle with Ohio State for the first

1:25.3

time in a long time. And that is exactly what happened on Saturday.

1:30.1

And what I would say might be one of the biggest Michigan wins ever in Michigan Stadium.

1:35.9

My son was there.

1:37.6

He's in his senior year at Michigan.

1:40.0

It was the last home game of his college career.

1:43.0

And he said he'd never heard. and other people said the same thing.

1:46.2

Michigan Stadium that loud, that electric, that much alive with what happened that day.

1:52.8

Now, before that day, we should also point out some of the events that transpired over the holiday weekend.

1:59.3

We needed to share this little story.

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