Arizona Cardinals 2016 Preseason Schedule
By Erich Becker
The Arizona Cardinals will tour the AFC West in the 2016 Preseason
The Arizona Cardinals will host the World Champion Denver Broncos in the final week of the preseason on either September 1 or September 2 in the final tune up for final cuts before the season starts the following Thursday. The team will also host the Oakland Raiders in the first week of the preseason tilt.
For the road games, the San Diego Chargers will welcome the Cardinals in the second week of the preseason and the Houston Texans will welcome Big Red in a nationally televised game in the all-too-important third preseason game where the starters can play into the second half.
This marks the 11th out of 13 seasons that the Cardinals will play against the Denver Broncos. Earlier in the preseason the team would have seen former ASU product Brock Osweiler return to Arizona, but now they’ll see him with the Texans the week before on the road.
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All in all, this marks the second consecutive year the team has played against the AFC West with several memorable games against the western foes last season.
The team will not play any of these teams in cross-conference play this season with the AFC East on tap.
The first week of the preseason Cardinals host the Raiders (August 11-15, Time: TBD)
Week two, in which the team travels to San Diego (August 18-22, Time: TBD)
The nationally televised game for the third week against the Texans will be on August 28, Time: TBD)
Finally, in the “scrubs” game where final cuts are determined, the Denver Broncos come to town on either September 1 or 2nd with a time TBD.