Arizona Cardinals: Breaking down the 2017 schedule
By Scott Allen
The Arizona Cardinals 2016 season clearly had an effect on their 2017 schedule
No Sunday Night Football. No opening the season at home, in fact the Arizona Cardinals will get to open and close the season on the road.
The Cardinals also have to go to London to face a team that plays 375 miles to the west in the Los Angeles Rams. Makes sense, right?
There will be one Monday Night Football game. That is their season home opener on Monday September 25th against the Dallas Cowboys.
The Cardinals will start the season on the road at the Detroit Lions and at Indianapolis Colts. That kind of scheduling takes you back to the days of when games were played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.
Then the NFL decided why not finish what you start? So the Cardinals will also end the season on the road at the Seattle Seahawks. It will be the second-consecutive season the Cardinals finish on the road.
The lack of national television games isn’t completely shocking but a little surprising given David Johnson’s rising stock in the league and Larry Fitzgerald’s possible last season. The NFL must feel the Cardinals stock is down.
The Cardinals are one of just three teams to open the first two weeks on the road. The others are the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles. Let’s look at each game.