In just his second year as an NFL head coach, Sean McVay took the Rams all the way to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, Los Angeles came up short due to a disappointing performance from the offense, scoring a paltry three points – the Rams’ fewest in any game under McVay.

The team had some time off after the game and before the bulk of the offseason work began, which gave players and coaches some time to reflect on the loss. They weren’t busy parading around the city or doing late-night interviews like the Patriots were, but it wasn’t long before McVay and the front office were evaluating draft prospects and future free agents.

Between the end of the game and that point, though, McVay got over the loss as many folks would have: with alcohol.

On Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take” podcast, McVay was asked if there was anything he did to get over the loss.

“Yeah, a lot of drinking,” McVay said plainly.

He was surprised to learn that the Rams’ win over the Saints in the NFC championship game caused Sean Payton to watch Netflix and eat a lot of ice cream.

“Really? I didn’t know that,” he said.

The Rams’ performance in the Super Bowl was historically bad, finishing as the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever. That’s the complete opposite of what fans (and bettors) expected to happen with most people believing it would be a high-scoring affair.

McVay shared a story of a fan coming up to him in Vegas about the money the Rams cost him, and it wasn’t exactly pennies. It was a large chunk of change.

“When I went to Vegas a couple weeks after the Super Bowl just to have some fun, first guy I run into says, ‘Hey man, you lost me half a million on the over.’ I said, ‘Oh man, I’m sorry.’ I’m probably a wanted man. But you just gotta move on,” McVay said.

The Rams coach got more serious when discussing the fact that he may have done too much studying of the Patriots’ film leading up to the Super Bowl. This is something he admitted recently, saying he may have gone overboard in that department.

If he could do it all over again, he may have done it differently and worked smarter, not harder.

“When you look at those couple weeks, there’s an element of when you work, you want to work hard. But you also want to work smart and you can have so many different things and not be mindful of the progression of the season. There’s usually about a 4-6-game span that you’re usually operating on while still being mindful of situations. And then you’ve got two weeks and you don’t want to short yourself.

“I’d be lying if I said that if things go a little off-track, you probably have too many thoughts in your head, and you would have a different rhythm. I don’t necessarily know if you’re working any less hard for the preparation, but you know, Coach Belichick and the Patriots are the standard right now.”

McVay is still one of the best coaches in the NFL, regardless of age. He’s reached the playoffs twice already, has led the Rams to the second-most points and yards since taking over in 2017 and is only 33 years old.

Yet, despite all the success he’s had, some are leaning toward Kliff Kingsbury as the hot new coach in the NFL now. The Cardinals coach hasn’t proved anything yet in the NFL, so it’s hard to put him above McVay right now.

“He is the hot new guy, but last time I checked, I didn’t cool off too bad, did I?”