MINNEAPOLIS -- After the Patriots' 41-33 loss to the Eagles in Super Bowl LII, Devin McCourty was open and honest.
He would rather have lost earlier in the playoffs than in the Super Bowl.
"Yeah, you would rather not be here if you're going to lose. It's just the truth," McCourty said. "We would have rather lost two or three weeks ago rather than come here and lose. But the truth is that you reset and you put in the hard work and you try to get back to this spot. It's hard. We know that."
Sunday night was McCourty's fourth Super Bowl and he knows how hard it is to get there each year.
"The first time I got here, it took three years to get back," he said. "So there's no guarantee we'll be back in the playoffs, no guarantee we'll be in the AFC championship. So we just got to get back to work, obviously as individuals for the offseason, and try to get better, so we make enough plays to win games next year."
McCourty was matched up with Eagles tight end Zach Ertz on the game-winning touchdown.
