Schedule should be out this week

[Shane]

lol.

i don't care about primetime games. Just for once let us start the season at home for pete's sake! Or... GASP! Maybe even two of our first three with a home game in Week 1!

Didnt that just happen in 06?

 

[Cheesebeef]

Didnt that just happen in 06?

yeah, and it's the ONLY TIME IN 20 FREAKING YEARS! Literally, in the last 20 years, we've AT LEAST started on the road 2 of the first 3 19 times, with 19 opening day road games.

Man, there were even like 4 seasons where we started off with 3 roadies to start the season. We're owed some dang opening day games for pete's sake!

 

[NightHawk11and81]

Also, until we get better looking cheerleaders, we don't deserve to be shown everywhere.

I don't care about the cheerleaders a bit. As long as they're women, all that matters is what happens between the lines.

 

[Totally_Red]

The Cards game against the 49ers in '06 was the first time the Cards were scheduled to open at home since moving to Arizona and only the third time since 1981.

The Cards have been scheduled to open at home only 12 times since moving to St.Louis in 1960. In 1964 the Cards played 5 straight road games to open the season, finished 9-3-2, and beat Green Bay in the Playoff Bowl.

Don't forget that Green Bay game when wagering on the # of Cards past post season wins.

In all fairness, it was more difficult to schedule home games when they were sharing Busch Stadium with the baseball Cardinals.

Going forward there is absolutely no reason at all to get short-changed on home openers. OTOH, I'd really like to get those nor'easter games (NE,NY,Philly) out of the way early on. I don't see the Cardinals being a solid cold-weather team.

 

[Duckjake]

yeah, and it's the ONLY TIME IN 20 FREAKING YEARS! Literally, in the last 20 years, we've AT LEAST started on the road 2 of the first 3 19 times, with 19 opening day road games.

Man, there were even like 4 seasons where we started off with 3 roadies to start the season. We're owed some dang opening day games for pete's sake!

1989,1990,1991 the Cards started with three road games. In '89 and '90 the Cards had one home game in the first 5 weeks of the season. In 1991 they had 2 home games in the first 7 weeks of the season. This as much as the losses caused attendance to drop from 472,000 in '88 to 309,000 by 1992 and the Cards to drop from the attention of Valley football fans.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

yeah, and it's the ONLY TIME IN 20 FREAKING YEARS! Literally, in the last 20 years, we've AT LEAST started on the road 2 of the first 3 19 times, with 19 opening day road games.

Man, there were even like 4 seasons where we started off with 3 roadies to start the season. We're owed some dang opening day games for pete's sake!

No one wants to play football at 115 degrees, even hotter on the field (Sun Devil Stadium). Of course we will start on the road.

 

[ARZCardinals]

No one wants to play football at 115 degrees, even hotter on the field (Sun Devil Stadium). Of course we will start on the road.

3 hours till the schedule. My bet is the Cards open at home this year. They'll have negotiated this as we have the indoor facility and we've started on the road every year but 2 since coming to AZ.

 

[black]

3 hours till the schedule. My bet is the Cards open at home this year. They'll have negotiated this as we have the indoor facility and we've started on the road every year but 2 since coming to AZ.

Is it going to be on TV? I'm gettin excited already.

What is weird to me is the schedule looks hard or easy before the season starts, but winds up the opposite sometimes.

 

[Buckybird]

Is it going to be on TV? I'm gettin excited already.

What is weird to me is the schedule looks hard or easy before the season starts, but winds up the opposite sometimes.

Parity!!! You never know how good or bad you'll be unless you're one of the top 6-7 teams in the league.

 

[DaisyCutter]

Parity!!! You never know how good or bad you'll be unless you're one of the top 6-7 teams in the league.

I think the only other deciding factor you can take about your schedule is how many cross-country roadies you have to make. When the Steelers or Pats have to play the AFC or NFC West, that's trouble for those teams. But it's even greater trouble when teams from the West Coast (counting the Cards) have to travel east, since their dealing with a much earlier kickoff time.

The Cards have to make three-time-zone changes for road games this season (all the road games are against teams in EST). That's trouble. The Cards were 0-3 in road games against Eastern Time Zone opponents last season.

EDIT: This is true for good teams, too. San Diego was 0-2 against East Coast teams last year (1-2 if Tennessee isn't in Central time). Seattle was 1-3 on Eastern road trips, including an embarrassing loss to the Falcons in Week 17.

 

[Buckybird]

I always wondered why we lose in the East. I still don't understand why it happens. Injuries are another big factor, maybe the biggest.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

yeah, and it's the ONLY TIME IN 20 FREAKING YEARS! Literally, in the last 20 years, we've AT LEAST started on the road 2 of the first 3 19 times, with 19 opening day road games.

Man, there were even like 4 seasons where we started off with 3 roadies to start the season. We're owed some dang opening day games for pete's sake!

No kidding! THE NFL is a JOKE when it comes to scheduling the Cardinals. they really should have at least 15 straight home openers to make up for that BS!

 

[football karma]

I think the only other deciding factor you can take about your schedule is how many cross-country roadies you have to make. When the Steelers or Pats have to play the AFC or NFC West, that's trouble for those teams. But it's even greater trouble when teams from the West Coast (counting the Cards) have to travel east, since their dealing with a much earlier kickoff time.

The Cards have to make three-time-zone changes for road games this season (all the road games are against teams in EST). That's trouble. The Cards were 0-3 in road games against Eastern Time Zone opponents last season.

EDIT: This is true for good teams, too. San Diego was 0-2 against East Coast teams last year (1-2 if Tennessee isn't in Central time). Seattle was 1-3 on Eastern road trips, including an embarrassing loss to the Falcons in Week 17.

one of my pet peeves. Anybody who travels knows its wayyyyyyy easier on your internal clock to go east to west, rather than west to east.

A 1 pm kickoff in AZ for an east coast team is just like a 4 pm kick-off: no big deal.

A 1 pm kickoff for a west coast team back in the east is a 10 am kickoff -- which means being at the stadium at 8 am body clock time.

This doesnt take into account that west coast teams lose a whole day travelling ( leave at 10 am Arizona time and land at 6pm local time). An east coast team actually has time to have a walkthrough the day they travel when they come west (10 am departure means a 12 pm arrival local time).

Why the western teams havent lobbied the NFL office to push east coast kickoffs for western teams back to 4pm EST whenever possible is surprising.

I read that the winning percentage for west coast teams going east for 1 pm kickoffs is something like 30% less than the overall record for road teams.

 

[DaisyCutter]

one of my pet peeves. Anybody who travels knows its wayyyyyyy easier on your internal clock to go east to west, rather than west to east.

A 1 pm kickoff in AZ for an east coast team is just like a 4 pm kick-off: no big deal.

A 1 pm kickoff for a west coast team back in the east is a 10 am kickoff -- which means being at the stadium at 8 am body clock time.

This doesnt take into account that west coast teams lose a whole day travelling ( leave at 10 am Arizona time and land at 6pm local time). An east coast team actually has time to have a walkthrough the day they travel when they come west (10 am departure means a 12 pm arrival local time).

Why the western teams havent lobbied the NFL office to push east coast kickoffs for western teams back to 4pm EST whenever possible is surprising.

I read that the winning percentage for west coast teams going east for 1 pm kickoffs is something like 30% less than the overall record for road teams.

Yup. The most under-rated aspect of the schedule. East-coast and central teams have an immediate advantage in the 16 game schedule. The Cards will have to dramatically improve on their on-field performance to hold serve against a schedule that is going to require them going East in 5 of 8 roadies.

 

[abomb]

Sunday, Sept. 7 Arizona Cardinals at San Francisco 49ers 4:15 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Sept. 14 Miami Dolphins at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. CBS
Sunday, Sept. 21 Arizona Cardinals at Washington Redskins 1 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Sept. 28 Arizona Cardinals at New York Jets 1 p.m. FOX

Sunday, Oct. 5 Buffalo Bills at Arizona Cardinals 1 p.m. CBS
Sunday, Oct. 12 Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Oct. 26 Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers 1 p.m. FOX

Sunday, Nov. 2 Arizona Cardinals at St. Louis Rams 1 p.m. FOX
Monday, Nov. 10 San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals 8:30 p.m. ESPN
Sunday, Nov. 16 Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks 4:05 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Nov. 23 New York Giants at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. FOX
Thursday, Nov. 27 Arizona Cardinals at Philadelphia Eagles 8:15 p.m. NFLN

Sunday, Dec. 7 St. Louis Rams at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Dec. 14 Minnesota Vikings at Arizona Cardinals 4:05 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Dec. 21 Arizona Cardinals at New England Patriots 1 p.m. FOX
Sunday, Dec. 28 Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. FOX

 

[Shane]

Yay 1st 3 of 4 on the road! WOOHOO! Evene with that we should be 4-1 after those first 5 contests. Only loss coming at Washington IMHO!

 

[Stout]

Yay 1st 3 of 4 on the road! WOOHOO! Evene with that we should be 4-1 after those first 5 contests. Only loss coming at Washington IMHO!

You know what? Optimistically, I think we CAN come out of the first 5 games with a 5-0 record. I don't think we will, but I think we'll at least be 3-2 and probably 4-1. Then we'll have more home games than away games. Nice.

 

[DaisyCutter]

You know what? Optimistically, I think we CAN come out of the first 5 games with a 5-0 record. I don't think we will, but I think we'll at least be 3-2 and probably 4-1. Then we'll have more home games than away games. Nice.

Man, it's immensely difficult to travel east and win games. The Chargers, with all their talent, went 1-3 on east-coast roadies last season. The Cards were 0-fer.

 

[Cheesebeef]

No one wants to play football at 115 degrees, even hotter on the field (Sun Devil Stadium). Of course we will start on the road.

sorry, but that was back in the day where EVERY team was mandated that they get at least one game on Sunday night on either TNT or ESPN. In just ONE of those years, they could have started us off at home on Sunday night.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Can we please beat the 49ers this year lol would suck to lose them twice again, and we better not lose to the dolphins at home, but I also think is a somewhat easy schedule we should have a winning record at the end of the season

 

[Big Deal]

This sucks, I hate having a home loaded end of the season, this team has always been a momentum team. If we don't do well the first half we usually tank and it doesn't matter that the games are at home.

Not to mention that when they are out of the playoffs, it's never any fun going to the final two home games..........

Darksider, signing off.

 

[moklerman]

Wow, this is a tough draw. NFC East and AFC East? It's way too early to tell but the Jets and Dolphins aren't going to be gimme's.

Monday Night Football and a Thanksgiving game is pretty cool though.

 

[ajcardfan]

Well, I was certainly wrong about opening at home. I hate the Skins and Jets games in weeks 3 and 4. Those will be tough. We'll do well to split.