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Championship cycles in professional football rarely absorb blowout defeats without cost, and the Los Angeles Rams are now paying one.
A lopsided loss to the San Francisco 49ers has piled additional stress onto a franchise that was already carrying significant pressure to reach the Super Bowl. The result sharpens a problem that predated the 49ers game.
Los Angeles had entered the contest under elevated championship expectations.
Those expectations did not ease with defeat, and a blowout margin leaves less room than a close-run loss to argue that form and circumstance simply aligned against the Rams on a given night.
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