Early in the morning, around 9 a.m., was when the winds of change started stirring in the wake of our latest loss. Twitter and fan forums were abuzz with news of a “shake-up” at The Castle, the nickname for the Ravens’ state-of-the-art training facility in Owings Mills, MD. What sort of “shake-up” would it be? Big or small? On offense, defense or special teams? Would it be meaningful, or would it be an Andy Reid-like canning of Random Coordinator X—a diversion to get people off John Harbaugh’s back? No one knew. Every time someone said it was probably nothing, because the Ravens usually never let stuff like that leak, someone else said it was probably something, because the Ravens almost always issue a statement against rumors, and this time, in light of the biggest rumor in years, the Ravens were silent. Harbaugh, beat writers said, had been in hush-hush meetings all morning.

It was lunchtime when the news finally broke: Cam Cameron, much-beleaguered offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Football Ravens, was nevermore. I think, actually, it was 11:22 a.m. on the dot when the first comment on my favorite Ravens forum cemented the news with a bunch of swears and exclamation points.

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