Staff members from the Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers concluded their first day of meetings Monday on their potential partnership in Los Angeles, and as expected, both sides remained quiet.

Or, as they said in a joint statement:

“We have concluded our first meeting. We mutually have agreed not to publicly discuss details of this or any future meeting.”

But as information began to spill out as the day unfolded, here is what is going on, according to sources:

The Rams are more than open to laying a beneficial Chargers foundation with them in Los Angeles. But the Chargers have to accept some reality.

While the Inglewood and Rams partnership could be advantageous to the Chargers over the long haul, it’s not what the Chargers envisioned back in February when they made their play on Carson with the Raiders.

And that is a reality the Chargers either need to accept or move on from.

According to sources, the Rams made it clear to the Chargers they are open to being willing and friendly partners. The deal the Rams are offering the Chargers — and the one fellow NFL owners signed off on last week in Houston — can set the Chargers up well initially and over the long haul in L.A.

At the same time, it is not the future the Chargers contemplated upon making their Carson deal with the Raiders. Nor the one they expected upon arriving in Houston last week when NFL owners gathered to decide between the Chargers’ and Raiders’ Carson project and the Rams’ Inglewood proposal.

The reality is, this is the deal on the table. And it likely won’t get any better than what was expressed on Monday, when they sat down with the Rams.

And that is something the Chargers must weigh as they move forward.

Do they accept the deal with the Rams immediately and embrace their fate as the Los Angeles Chargers playing in a stadium shared with the Los Angeles Rams?

Or do they take an agreed-upon deal with the Rams to San Diego to leverage a stadium deal there?

“They have some decisions to make,” said a source close to the negotiations.

According to sources, the meeting Monday was more on the fact-finding basis than an actual negotiation.

As of late Monday afternoon, there were no other meetings scheduled.

“The Chargers have to decide what exactly they want,” a source said. “There is a deal to be made. One that will help the Chargers moving forward. But it might not be exactly what they envisioned when they set out on this journey. They have to decide if it’s the one they want to pursue moving forward.”