If the tough final stretch of the 2025 season is going to matter, the Cardinals need to take care of business early on.<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have released their 2025 regular-season schedule. We know where and when every game is (minus the specific day and time of their final two contests), and we can begin to break down how they will do.<\/p>\n We detailed how tough the end of the season is, how they play four of their final six games on the road, including four games against three division winners from last season and two who were in the playoff mix late in the year. That stretch could make or break their postseason hopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n But maybe that isn’t completely true.<\/p>\n The final stretch might not matter if they don’t take advantage of their relatively easy start of the season.<\/p>\n Arizona Cardinals schedule: The first 6 weeks<\/p>\n In those six games, they play four against opponents we could consider inferior opponents. The Saints are a mess and could be the worst team in the league in 2025. The Panthers are ascending but the Cardinals should beat them, especially at home. The Titans should be bad with a rookie quarterback. The Colts are an uncertain, especially since both their quarterbacks (Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones) have had giant question marks for careers.<\/p>\n They play two division games, but one is at home, and any team looking to make the postseason should win their home divisional games.<\/p>\n If the Cardinals are going to set themselves up for the possibility of being in the playoff picture late in the year, they need to come out of these six games at least 4-2.<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the tough final stretch of the 2025 season is going to matter, the Cardinals need to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[247,265,375,390,2604,1327,235,260,2005,7,2004,392,1184,248,267,330,206,55,88,6,676,245,338,236,397,1602,2517,9,266,526,394,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-53776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals","12":"tag-arizonacardinals","13":"tag-cardinals","14":"tag-carolina","15":"tag-carolina-panthers","16":"tag-colts","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-indianapolis","19":"tag-indianapolis-colts","20":"tag-listicle","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-negative","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-orleans-saints","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-orleans","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-negative","31":"tag-panthers","32":"tag-saints","33":"tag-smg","34":"tag-smg-listicle","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-tennessee","38":"tag-tennessee-titans","39":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114515442753847173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53776","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=53776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}