The Los Angeles Rams will head to the Midwest this weekend where they’ll take on the Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium, which just opened last year. It’ll be the Rams’ first game in the building, but they’re hoping it’s not their last this season.

Super Bowl LII will be held there in February, pitting the final two teams against each other. The Rams and Vikings both have a good chance to be there at the end of it all with 7-2 records as of now, but neither team is going to get ahead of itself by looking forward.

Sean McVay, who’s preached a one-day-at-a-time mantra all year, isn’t even thinking about the possibility of returning to Minnesota in February.

“I don’t think so. I think you know as you’re asking that question. And really, what a great thing that is, but if we don’t get to our eighth win then nothing else really matters and that’s what’s important for us right now,” McVay said Monday. “It’s really one of the first times that you continue to say something over and over, because you hear it a lot, but what I do think is unique about our team right now is guys really believe that.”

McVay has gotten his players to buy into the notion that they have to take it one game at a time. It’s worked for the first 10 weeks of the season, and he doesn’t expect that to change moving forward.

Of course, it’s impossible for them to avoid the outside noise and all the hype surrounding the Rams right now. They’re 7-2, have the second-best record in the NFL and look poised to make the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

“You kind of just speak something into existence and you talk about it so often you almost really do put blinders on because of what a competitive, tough league this is,” he continued. “Certainly, you have an awareness and an idea of what’s going on. That’s not to say you don’t know and pay attention to the other teams in this league. But, to truly say that all that really matters for us is we’re focused on Minnesota and against a great football team – how can we find a way to get to 8-2.”

The Rams have the second-toughest remaining schedule in the NFL, so they’re certainly going to be tested down the stretch – and that begins on Sunday in Minnesota.