{"id":292412,"date":"2025-08-16T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/292412\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:45:26","slug":"arizona-cardinals-likely-not-to-play-starters-against-denver-broncos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/292412\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals likely not to play starters against Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We are into the 2025 preseason, and that means we see the starters\u2026 right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, after the Arizona Cardinals starters got work in preseason game one, they now may not see work in preseason game two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, it is not just because they don\u2019t need to play, no instead it is because they had their joint practice with the Denver Broncos on Thursday, and the Broncos are not playing their starters and their head coach Sean Payton believes the Arizona Cardinals are not either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My buddies Johnny and Bo over at PHNX Cardinals had a nice conversation on why it makes sense that the Cardinals will not play their starters as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My biggest thing is that if the Cardinals are not playing in the third preseason game, not playing in the second preseason game after an extremely physical joint practice on Thursday doesn\u2019t matter. We are literally nitpicking over two days of work difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, if the plan has been to not play starters in game three, then there is no difference to me in not playing them after the joint practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Also, let\u2019s be honest, there is not a whole lot of winning if they are playing the Broncos backups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If the Cardinals starters are killing it, it is against Broncos backups, if they suck, then we all start the end is near countdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are into the 2025 preseason, and that means we see the starters\u2026 right? Well, after the Arizona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[14996,12051,29352,232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-292412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals-news","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals-preseason","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-training-camp","11":"tag-broncos","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-broncos","14":"tag-denverbroncos","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115037807343037649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}