“I don’t know if I’d wish upon my worst enemy the piercing sting of losing the game,” Snead continued. “It a little bit lingers because, No. 1, there’s no next week. The season is over and that’s what you do. … There’s a physical pain when you replay things in your mind, like, ‘Oh, if we had just done…’ I remember saying, OK, what I’m going to do is journal all my thoughts and then I’m going to count how many days that I can actually have a flashback and not actually hurt physically. We’re at that point. You got through that.”

Head coach Sean McVay described a similar sentiment when discussing the feeling of losing the Super Bowl since there is no “next week” at that point.

“It took a day. I would say the night was really disappointing,” McVay said. “There’s such a finality. We went into that game with a confidence and an expectation to go win and finish it the right way. The thing that’s so different about that — and really, it was the same way in the playoffs the year before — is usually you get a chance to respond the next week, and that’s what you love so much about football. Well, when it’s over, it’s over.”

“Like you guys just heard us talking about,” McVay continued, “if you’re going to ask your players to mentally tough, to be resilient and have the ability of moving on, you’ve got to be able to live what you’re saying. I think it’s important not to be naive to the fact that, yeah, that stings, but you can’t allow it to just linger, where it doesn’t allow you to move forward. And that really is whether we had won or lost.”