The Arizona Cardinals play their final home game of the season hosting the New York Giants on Christmas Eve
The Arizona Cardinals (6-8) don’t have any more playoff hopes. All they have left is pride as they face the New York Giants (2-12) on Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals try to close the 2017 season with wins in the last two weeks to finish at .500.
As for the Giants, they’ve had a miserable season. They lost their three of their top four receivers for the season. They fired their head coach a few weeks ago and they’ve flipped flopped starting Eli Manning at quarterback.
TV/Radio
TV: FOX 10 (Dick Stockton, Mark Schlereth)
Date/Time: Sunday December 24th 2:25 p.m. Arizona time, 4:25 p.m. ET
Radio: Arizona Sports 98.7 FM (Dave Pasch, Ron Wolfley, Paul Calvisi);
Cardinals radio broadcast network:
KATO, 1230 AM, Thatcher
KAZM, 780 AM, Sedona
KNTR, 980 AM, Lake Havasu
KDDL/KQNA, 94.3 FM, Prescott Valley
KVNA, 600 AM, Flagstaff
KZUA, 92.1 FM, Holbrook
KBLU, 560 AM, Yuma
KRVZ, 1400 AM, Springerville
KIKO, 1340 AM, Miami
KCUB, 1290 AM, Tucson
KGMN,100.1 FM, Kingman
Key matchups/players
How will the Drew Stanton respond starting and playing in his first game since November 9th against the Seattle Seahawks? Can he produce enough offense to get the Cardinals into the end zone.
The Giants defense is pretty good when they want to be. The Cardinals have not scored a touchdown since the first half of the game against the Los Angeles Rams on December 3rd, three weeks ago.
The other part of the Cardinals offense, the running game, could be an interesting one on Sunday if Kerwynn Williams can’t play. That would leave D.J. Foster and Elijhaa Penny to run the ball against the Giants on Sunday.
Cardinals cornerbacks Patrick Peterson and Tramon Williams could end up with big days against an inconsistent Manning. Manning has thrown 10 interceptions so far this season. he had 18 touchdown passes.