Q. Team-wise, what was your biggest takeaway from week 1?
DK METCALF: They've got a pretty good defense. They held us the whole game, and we've got a tightknit team, in my opinion. The offense stuttered in the first half, the way I saw it, but our defense kept responding. Every time they had to go out on the field and get a big stop, they did it.
We're going to lean on each other this season. Nobody wants to start out the way we did this season on offense, but we're going to learn from it. Like I said, our defense had our back, and we're going to continue to lean on each other throughout the whole season.
Q. How could you tell it's a tightknit team?
DK METCALF: Nobody was getting flustered on the sideline after the pick or the two safeties. The defense just said, all right, we know what we've got to do, and they went out there and got a stop.
Q. What does that do for you guys confidence-wise? Okay, we're not going well on offense, but the defense keeps getting our back. What does that do for you?
DK METCALF: It just builds confidence and continuity for down the road. Like I said, we started out week 1 like that. We found out a lot about who we are as a team in week 1, but just hopefully we can build on that and not take any steps back from it.
Q. Both Tyler and Mike talked about your role on the last play when Tyler got the third down to sort of seal the game. What's the key to what you had to do on that play?
DK METCALF: I didn't do nothing. Geno threw a perfect ball and Tyler caught it with one hand. Tyler is always going to show up in the big time moments, whenever you need a first down or a big play.
He's the guy that got our touchdown or field goal drive started. You know you can always lean on Lock in those situations because he's a vet in the league and he's been making plays since he first stepped foot on the football field.
Q. What does it show you about Lock -- he missed a lot of time in camp and didn't play preseason -- to go out and have the game he had?
DK METCALF: I'll just call it the greatest athlete on planet earth because he didn't have to do anything and just showed up and he was around catching crazy catches throughout the whole game.
That just speaks to his work ethic. Off the field, studied his butt off. He was here for treatment every morning. Just speaks to the kind of person he is. Always team first, and he's going to do whatever it takes so he's on the field so he can make those type of plays.
Q. It's easy to look at a coach and say he's got a defensive background. You've got two of those coaches this week. Can you tell when you're in the game, or do we tend to make too much of that kind of as you look at matchups and pregames?
DK METCALF: Y'all definitely look at that stuff way too much.
Q. You can't tell if you're going up against a defensive-minded coach versus anything else?
DK METCALF: No, because both teams are trying to win. The offense is trying to score as many points and then the defense is trying to stop you? It's football at the end of the day. Take the scheme out of it, it's Xs and Os. Everybody tries to score, and the defense tries to stop you.
I think this week is going to be who's going to play for four quarters with minimal to no mistakes.
Q. I'm sure you like catching the ball the most, but do you enjoy turning the tables and getting your hands on the defensive player to block some of the run plays?
DK METCALF: Yes, mainly because if it's a run to the right, he may end up on the left. You never know where Ken is going to end up or what hole he's going to choose.
Like I said, you saw how great of a back he was on Sunday because we leaned on him a lot. Congratulations to his first of many 100-yard games of the season. I mean, they still haven't seen Zach Charbonneau yet, Kenny McIntosh. I think we've got a stable of backs who have that same effect that Ken has.
Q. Gardner had that nice block on that touchdown run from Ken. What have you seen from him in that regard?
DK METCALF: Just his attention to detail. He's always asking questions, very curious about how he can get better. He has a great leader in Noah and Ferrell in the room with them, and he just leans on them for guidance. He's going to come into his own later on during the season.
Q. It looked like they just put Surtain on you the whole game. What do you think of that matchup and how that worked?
DK METCALF: Yes, sir, it's always good to go against one DB for the whole game. You get to study each other. Pat Surtain is one of the best corners in this league, as you all have seen. He's a good matchup. He's a smart, very patient corner.
Just glad to get to go up against one guy and not have to switch techniques against multiple corners during the whole game, but it was a good matchup.
Q. You'll probably see a lot of Christian Gonzalez this week based on what they did with him last week. What do you see out of his game when you study him?
DK METCALF: He's a very physical corner in press coverage. When he's off coverage, he tries to keep everything in front of him. I think this is just his fifth game in the NFL, so we're going to see how he holds up for four quarters. You know he's a very good young player.
Q. Your Bel Air cameo, how did that happen? How did that come about?
DK METCALF: How did that happen? Oh, I was at a production studio called Hidden Empire down in L.A. and he had a connection to one of the producers of the show, and he was at a table read that I was at.
I mean, he saw what I did at the table read and asked me if I wanted to be in a show, and I couldn't say no. It was just a great opportunity. Just appreciate Deion Taylor for coordinating all of that for me, but it was just a good experience for me.
Q. You were at a table read for another project?
DK METCALF: Yes.
Q. Did that pan out for you?
DK METCALF: Man, you want to know too much. No, not yet. Not yet.
Q. Mike and many of your teammates were raving about the pick Riq made, the way he came across the field. I guess as someone who goes against him in practice, it doesn't surprise you he can pull that off?
DK METCALF: Yeah, I think Riq and Spoon are going to have a great year going against them in training camp. I think they're two of the best corners in the league especially going against them every day in practice. Iron sharpens iron. They're going to make me a better player throughout the whole season.
No, it does not surprise me that Riq is making those types of plays on the defensive end.
Q. Did you like how your Men's Health cover turned out?
DK METCALF: Yes, but I'm kind of low key right now, but I haven't been able to tap into it all of it. I heard it turned out great. My mama told me it looked good, so that was good.
Q. No social media right now?
DK METCALF: Right.
Q. If you and Riq switched sides, you play defense he played offense, who would win the rep?
DK METCALF: I tell Riq all the time I could cover him if he was a receiver. He played receiver in college, so he got a good receiver background to him.
Q. What defensive position did you play in high school?
DK METCALF: Corner and safety. I wasn't this big, though. I was not this big.
Q. This was your first time after doing a post-game meeting with Mike after a regular season game. What was that like as compared to maybe years past?
DK METCALF: I think that he pretty much did it the same. They both debrief us, give us their opinions, let the coordinators talk, and then we break off into position meetings. That's where we really get the details of ironing out what we could have did better, what we did good.
It's pretty much standard procedure as the following years.
Q. How was Grubb when you guys did offensive debrief for the game?
DK METCALF: He was very honest with us. In my opinion, I thought we all needed it. We've just got to block better as an offense and just eliminate the stupid penalties where we kill drives on our own and not the defense doing anything to hurt us.
But at the end of the day, it's all in our hands. We're the only team, or only people that can stop ourselves.
Q. How is it with Monday off and Tuesday in?
DK METCALF: I'm just here so I won't get fined. Ain't got a comment on that one.
Q. How excited is this offense to show a little bit more? I know the second half broke out, but some of the explosiveness. Do you feel like you guys held back because of some of those mistakes?
DK METCALF: I don't think it was us being held back. The run game was working. Ken was churning, and we just kept going back to the well and he just kept producing for us and we didn't have to throw the ball, in a sense.
When we need to throw the ball and need explosives down the field, I think Grubb will dial it up for us. If running the ball is what we need to win games, then why not?
Q. What steered you away from social media for the time being?
DK METCALF: Just a different perspective. Just being off of it, seeing how long I can go without it. One week turned into a couple months. Look back at it, really don't need to be on it. Simple life. Don't have to worry about anything.
Q. After last season or something?
DK METCALF: It was October of last season.
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