How do you move on from a Super Bowl defeat? If you’re Jared Goff, the answer is to treat it as normal as possible.
The Los Angeles Rams quarterback told Albert Breer of the MMQB that his method of dealing with the loss to the New England Patriots was to analyze it as he would any other loss.
“Oh yeah. I went back and watched it the day after,” Goff said. “Postgame, tried to treat it like any other game where you’re evaluating yourself. Obviously, there were much bigger implications, but you just go through it like you would, and evaluate what you think you did well and what you didn’t do well, and move on.
“And yeah, it took longer than a regular game to move on from, because there wasn’t a game after it to fix what you’d done in the previous game. But it’s part of the process. Every year there’s a team that goes through this. This year it’s us.”
It’s certainly reasonable, but only time will tell if Goff’s approach is effective. Aside from the Patriots, Super Bowl losers have not had much luck getting back to the promised land in the last two decades or so.
Goff has a lot to play for beyond that, as he has to earn a second contract. The Rams’ progress will be fun to watch this season.
