Arizona Cardinals 2014-15 Schedule Unveiled
By Jesse Borek
Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
With the calendars ready to flip to May, that can mean only one thing: football is on the horizon.
The National Football League released their schedule for the upcoming 2014-15 season on Wednesday night, and immediately, teams and media personnel got to overreact to how “unfairly” they were treated by the entire process. No team believes to have gotten an easy schedule, it’s NFL nature to believe to have gotten shafted by those crooked schedule makers that no one knows.
Peek at what the game’s entail:
Week 1: Monday, September 8, 2014 – vs. San Diego Chargers – 7:20 p.m.
Week 2: Sunday, September 14, 2014 – @ New York Giants – 10:00 p.m.
Week 3: Sunday, September 21, 2014 – vs. San Francisco 49ers – 1:05 p.m.
Week 4: BYE
Week 5: Sunday, October 5, 2014 – @ Denver Broncos – 1:05 p.m.
Week 6: Sunday, October 12, 2014 – vs. Washington Redskins – 1:25 p.m.
Week 7: Sunday, October 19, 2014 – @ Oakland Raiders – 1:25 p.m.
Week 8: Sunday, October 26, 2014 – vs. Philadelphia Eagles – 1:05 p.m.
Week 9: Sunday, November 2, 2014 – @ Dallas Cowboys – 11:00 a.m.
Week 10: Sunday, November 9, 2014 – vs. St. Louis Rams – 2:25 p.m.
Week 11: Sunday, November 16, 2014 – vs. Detroit Lions – 2:25 p.m.
Week 12: Sunday, November 23, 2014 – @ Seattle Seahawks – 2:05 p.m.
Week 13: Sunday, November 30, 2014 – @ Atlanta Falcons – 2:05 p.m.
Week 14: Sunday, December 7, 2014 – vs. Kansas City Chiefs – 2:05 p.m.
Week 15: Thursday, December 11, 2014 – @ St. Louis Rams – 6:25 p.m.
Week 16: Sunday, December 21, 2014 – vs. Seattle Seahawks – 6:30 p.m.
Week 17: Sunday, December 28, 2014 – @ San Francisco 49ers – 2:25 p.m.
It may be a claim a number of teams can make, but the Arizona Cardinals drew a deathblow.
After finishing 10-6 last season, the Cardinals were handed the AFC West, which just so happens to feature one-half of last season’s Super Bowl contestants. Of course, the winner of the Lombardi Trophy inhabits their own division, so the two clashes between the Seahawks and Cardinals should be important regardless.
Outside of the game at Oakland, there is not one single game that can be nearly written in permanent marker as a victory. Even then, traveling to Oakland to play against the “Black Hole” fans can be a rowdy environment for an opposing team.
The majority of the trouble in the schedule stems from the fact that the NFC West is stacked with talent. Both the Seahawks and 49ers are perennial Super Bowl contenders before they even step on the field, and the Rams are the pesky club looking to improve.
By no means will a double-digit win season be an easy repeat.
What do you think the Cardinals record is going to look like?