By: Alexander Pyles

Social networks were atwitter with activity Monday morning as news broke that the Ravens had fired offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, with very few lamenting the oft-maligned offensive coordinator’s dismissal from a 9-4 team in the midst of a playoff push.

Shortly after noon, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake jumped in, too. Speaking at an awards ceremony for Baltimore businesses, Rawlings-Blake said she was in mourning following the football team’s first losing streak since October 2009.

But Cameron’s dismissal had the mayor feeling like a new day was coming for “frustrated” quarterback Joe Flacco, chronically under-utilized running back Ray Rice and the 18th-ranked Ravens offense.

“Maybe with the new offensive coach, there might be some opportunities on the horizon for us,” Rawlings-Blake told a crowd of city business leaders enjoying lunch in a Hyatt Regency ballroom.

Half the crowd laughed and the other half groaned, an appropriately-mixed reaction given Cameron’s replacement.

Quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell, who presided over a Super Bowl run by the Indianapolis Colts in 2009 but was fired following a 2-14 season in 2011, will take over play calling duties, despite having never called plays in the NFL or college.