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Eric Dickerson reveling in Rams' change of coaches, and fortunes

LOS ANGELES - The public-relations nightmare took shape a year ago, the Monday after Thanksgiving. The Los Angeles Rams had just been blown out by New Orleans, 49-21, to drop to 4-7. The team's inaugural season back in Los Angeles was careening off the rails, and coach Jeff Fisher's job was in serious jeopardy.

Then, the spat that marked the beginning of the end.

Rams great Eric Dickerson revealed on his Los Angeles radio show that Fisher had tried to scold him on a phone call a couple weeks earlier, telling the Hall of Fame running back that players and

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