The Los Angeles Rams had a spectacular 2018 campaign. They won 12 games. They won the NFC West division title. They made it all the way to the Super Bowl.

And yet, Rams head coach Sean McVay is still feeling empty after his team's Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots.

Los Angeles general manager Les Snead says that McVay puts far too much blame on himself, and that's not necessarily a bad thing:

“I think if you know Sean, he will put probably too much blame on himself, but that’s just his DNA, that’s just his nature,” Snead said on The Sedano Show. “That’s what he does and I think that’s what makes him really good because he’ll self-reflect and then try to actually apply some of the lessons that he feels like he’s learned. There’s some big-picture elements into that. We’ve been very, very successful the last two years, but we’ve only been to one Super Bowl and it was a lot of ours first Super Bowl.”

The Rams' offense looked anemic in the Super Bowl, as Los Angeles mustered just three points in a 10-point loss. McVay said earlier this offseason he felt he may have overthought everything by watching too much film in the lead-up to the game, and while Snead says that may be true, he adds that McVay is going to put pressure on himself no matter what:

“You do have two weeks to prepare for a game, so more than your normal one week,” Snead said in reference to McVay watching two weeks of film before the Super Bowl. “So there’s some reality to that, but I do think at the end of the day, Sean’s going to put a lot of pressure on himself, he’s going to take a lot of blame and that’s one of the things he thought he did. I think it’s somewhere in-between and there’s probably some truth to it, as well.”

The good news for the Rams is that the 2019 campaign is about to get underway, so they won't have to wait much longer for their shot at redemption.