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Good morning football. Hey, welcome to good morning football, presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky. We're live in New York City, as always. It's Thursday, November 2nd. I'm Jamie Rottall. There's Kyle Brandt. There's Peter Schrager. And here is Sean O'Hara in the chair for Jason McCordy for a stretch now. What's up, buddy? For the long haul here. I'm ready. Are you guys ready? I don't know if you could hand another Rutgers scholar night here. We have a lot of Rutgers and a lot of New Jersey. It's great to see you. We watched Gus Edwards have three touchdowns the other day so I think Isaiah Pacheco himself. Now we have you. We're good, dude. We embrace it. Good morning to everybody once again. Time for the lead block.

Lead block.

We'll start, dude.

We embrace it. Good morning to everybody once again. Time for the lead block. We'll start our conversation this morning with Tom Pelliserro. As we look ahead once again to a Thursday night football game, it's Titans Steelers. What do we need to know? Well, Jamie, let's start out with Steelers quarterback, Kenny Pickett, who said earlier this week,

he was going to be good to go despite getting knocked out of a game just four days

ago with a rib injury. Indeed, Pickett listed as a full participant in practice on Wednesday. He is

off the injury report, good to go tonight against the Titans. Safety Minkafitz Patrick, as expected,

out for this game because of a hamstring

injury has not practiced since he got hurt on Sunday. Now remains to be seen. Could the Steelers

potentially put Fitzpatrick on injured reserve later today? Or do they think he can get back in fewer

than four weeks? We'll be monitoring that aspect of things as well. Titans wide receiver,

DeAndre Hopkins, did not practice on Wednesday, officially listed as questionable because of a toe injury. I am told, though, Hopkins is expected to play tonight.

Quarterback Ryan Tannenhill, meanwhile, once again, is out because of his high ankle sprain,

which means the second NFL start

tonight for rookie Will Levis. Jamie? That is a thrill for the Titans if you wanted to see more

of what Willis is made of. Tom Pellisero, thank you. We'll talk to you in a little bit. Kyle has

been banging his fist at the table. How have we not had entire segments dedicated to what Will Levis accomplished in his first start last weekend? Well, it's not just a whole segment, buddy. It's leading the show. So it'll be Will Levis tonight. Here is what he had to say about his confidence and how it will roll in to tonight's game in prime time. Shoot, yeah. I mean, if you're not confident in yourself, you don't believe in yourself, nobody will.

Sam goes for just, you know, my confidence with the entire offense. Being the quarterback, you know, you got to make sure that you've the right mindset because, you know, guys are going to be looking to you, and you got to pick guys up when they're down and keep them neutral when things are up. So it's definitely a big part of the job. job. So you have to imagine, even if he had confidence coming into that first start,

confidence soars a little bit if you have a four touchdown game in your first start in the NFL.

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