Pete Carroll met with DK Metcalf on Sunday night to discuss the wide receiver's latest costly penalty.

"We'll wait and see how that goes," Carroll said. "He was great talking about the end of the game and all that stuff. We had a great conversation, very serious, man-to-man down to it. He wants to be great and he wants to do everything he can to be great, and so we'll figure it out."

Metcalf was penalized for taunting late in the fourth quarter of the Seahawks' surprising 30-13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. 

It was the eighth time in his career that he's been flagged for either taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct, unnecessary roughness or disqualification -- the most in the NFL since he debuted in 2019.

"DK and I talked for a long time last night about [how] that's not what we can allow to happen because that means that they can control him and get after him," Carroll said on his Seattle Sports 710-AM radio show Monday.

"So, he has to elevate above that. So it's a challenge. This is nothing new. DK's been an emotional, feisty, fiery player since the day he got here, and that is who he is. But he has to also manage that so they don't take advantage of it."