LA Rams head coach Sean McVay says he's more 'comfortable' heading into Super Bowl having previously lost in one in 2018

By Ben Morse, CNN

Updated 1122 GMT (1922 HKT) February 1, 2022

Sean McVay watches warm ups before the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers.

(CNN)Some coaches never recover from losing the Super Bowl.

For LA Rams head coach Sean McVay, losing to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at the end of the 2018 season as a 33-year-old could have been cataclysmic for his career. However, he showed no evidence of being scarred by the 13-3 loss — the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history — and has helped mastermind the Rams back to the title game this season. Tom Brady calls a play during Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams.Between trading for former No. 1 overall pick Matthew Stafford to be the team's new quarterback and signing Odell Beckham Jr. after he was released by the Cleveland Browns, the moves McVay and general manager Les Snead have made throughout the season have taken the Rams once again to the doorstop of success. And it all culminated in a dramatic victory in the NFC Championship game against longtime adversary Kyle Shanahan, overcoming a 10-point deficit to beat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 and advance to Super Bowl LVI, which is to be held in the Rams' SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on February 14. Read MoreDespite the heartbreak that came with the Super Bowl loss to the Patriots in 2019, McVay is able to appreciate that he has learned from that experience. «I think as you accumulate experience and you use it the right way — we talk to our players all the time, repetition is the mother of learning. And it's no different for coaches. And you talk about managing the game or making decisions as a play caller and how you put together a game plan to try to help put your players in the right