Sean McVay offers self-deprecating 'dropped mic' response as Los Angeles Rams are back in Super Bowl chase

The Los Angeles Rams won their first game of the season Monday night and that allows coach Sean McVay to stop beating himself up about the season-opening loss in Australia.

McVay, you should know, had been stewing about that loss to the San Francisco 49ers abroad for going on two weeks leading up to Monday night's game.

He took it personally, and blamed himself, maybe because he recognized he was part of the problem.

McVay finally confessed to that after beating the New York Giants in a game his team showed much more energy and better execution.

RAMS' DISASTER IN AUSTRALIA RAISES THE QUESTION: SHOULD THE TEAM HAVE FOLLOWED THE 49ERS THERE EARLIER? Why? "We have the right people," McVay said.

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Sometimes you have a dumbass coach that makes travel plans that put you in a bad spot.

"So there you go.

That's a dropped mic." There it is: The haunting trip to Australia, with its unorthodox travel planning, is now in the rearview mirror.

The Rams see themselves back on course as a Super Bowl contender.

It wasn't, excuse the metaphor, an easy road to recovery because McVay took a while to let go of the Australia experience.

He criticized himself afterward for days.

He didn't like the way he coached and said, "I didn't do a good enough job getting us ready to go." And days later, McVay's simmering frustration boiled over when he turned his ire on the country where the game was played.

"We're not playing in Australia ever again, I hope," McVay told reporters.