Analysis: McVay kicking himself over dubious decisions that doomed Rams on a wacky wild-card weekend

Regrets, Sean McVay has a few.

Less than two years after shepherding the Los Angeles Rams to a triumph in Super Bowl 56, McVay’s dubious decisions doomed LA to a 24-23 loss to the Detroit Lions and his former quarterback Jared Goff.

McVay burned one timeout 90 seconds into the second half and another with 13:47 left in the game. That left the Rams with one timeout when they reached the Lions 34 just under the five-minute mark only to see a holding call push them back 10 yards and almost certainly out of field-goal range.

A subsequent incompletion left the Rams facing fourth-and-14 from the Lions 44 and McVay with an unenviable choice of going for it, trying a 62-yard field goal or punting and pinning his hopes on his defense getting another stop.