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Sam Farmer: This week will be big for Rams, Chargers

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles NFL teams. Two identical records. Two dramatically different situations.

The Chargers are a miscast wild-card team, the 6-foot kid in the third-grade class picture. They are 11-3 in a cluster of hopefuls, almost all with three fewer wins.

The Rams are 11-3 too, but they marked their height on the wall three weeks ago and haven't grown since. They're putting their shoulders back, straining their necks, rocking up on their tiptoes but have been stuck on 11 wins since

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