{"id":58805,"date":"2025-08-04T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58805\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:31:09","slug":"dk-metcalf-steelers-have-the-best-defense-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58805\/","title":{"rendered":"DK Metcalf: Steelers have the best defense I&#8217;ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf has played 101 games in his NFL career, so he\u2019s seen a lot of different defenses. But he thinks the one he\u2019s practicing against right now is better than any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rapsheet\/status\/1952111508567060566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said on NFL Network<\/a> that going 11-on-11 against the Steelers\u2019 defense in training camp is the toughest challenge he has faced in the league, saying Steelers cornerbacks Joey Porter Jr., Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay are as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat reckless defense that we\u2019ve got on the other side of the ball, every play I get to go against JPJ, Jalen or Slay, so I\u2019m always getting better in that aspect,\u201d Metcalf said. <\/p>\n<p>Metcalf said practicing against this defense is harder than playing against any other defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re the best defense I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Metcalf said. \u201cThey come to work every day and we don\u2019t have any choice but to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Metcalf is right about that, he and Aaron Rodgers won\u2019t have to score a lot of points to win a lot of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf has played 101 games in his NFL career, so he\u2019s seen a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-58805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}