RAVENS NEWS: The Time Is Now!

NFL insider Don Banks (Inside The NFL - SI.com)  has posted a tremendous Ravens preview piece. A great friend of the Mark Viviano Show since our earliest days, Banks, makes a case for the Ravens being primed and ready to win it ALL.

Here are some highlites from "Donnie B's" online post:

- "Only two teams in the NFL have won playoff games in each of the past two postseasons, Baltimore in the AFC and Arizona in the NFC."

- "All three of the Ravens' playoff wins under Harbaugh have come the hard way, on the road  at Miami and Tennessee in the 2008 season, and at New England in 2009. No other team in the league owns more than two road playoff wins over that span (Philadelphia and the Jets)."

- "Baltimore won 20 games the past two regular seasons, but both times it was forced to go the wild-card route of the sixth and final seed in the AFC playoff field, eventually losing to the conference champion each time (at Pittsburgh in 2008 and at Indianapolis in 2009). Let the Ravens improve their standing in the AFC North just a tad, and watch out come the postseason."

Tune into The Mark Viviano Show on Thursday at 10a; as Don Banks will join us to talk Ravens and all things Inside the NFL!

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/don_banks/07/20/ravens/index.html#ixzz0uHYlTFHi