{"id":70516,"date":"2025-05-22T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/70516\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:38:08","slug":"ranking-the-2025-arizona-cardinals-strength-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/70516\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 2025 Arizona Cardinals strength of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> begin their 2025 season with a game versus the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" data-autotag=\"84b23fc0-f769-4d65-9d38-018c62e4efd7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> on Sept. 7. For a look at their strength of schedule this season, keep reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/l\/55awpkB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Cardinals tickets on StubHub!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardinals strength of scheduleTaking into account their opponents&#8217; combined win total last year (132), the Cardinals have the 27th-ranked schedule in the league.Arizona is playing the eighth-hardest schedule (based on our predictions) this year.The Cardinals will have the fifth-easiest schedule in the NFL, based on their opponents&#8217; projected win total this season (131).The Cardinals&#8217; schedule includes eight games against teams that finished over .500 in 2024 (zero against teams with 12 or more wins and four against squads that accumulated less than six wins).Arizona has five games scheduled against teams that made the playoffs last year.Cardinals games<a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/l\/55awpkB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Cardinals tickets on StubHub!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals begin their 2025 season with a game versus the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 7.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[821,247,265,357,375,390,2604,822,5275,1107,1327,861,874,868,867,877,321,862,1109,441,816,864,3203,876,12716,7,1134,866,243,828,820,830,3198,248,267,206,55,88,6,869,676,245,537,3197,530,397,818,238,237,261,865,2764,817,829,815,9,1115,266,819,3199,776,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-70516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-and","12":"tag-arizona","13":"tag-arizona-cardinals","14":"tag-arizonacardinals","15":"tag-arts","16":"tag-autopilot","17":"tag-betting","18":"tag-cardinals","19":"tag-cbs","20":"tag-cbs-corp","21":"tag-commerce","22":"tag-contains","23":"tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","24":"tag-content","25":"tag-corp","26":"tag-disclaimer","27":"tag-entertainment","28":"tag-events","29":"tag-exclude","30":"tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","31":"tag-exclude-smart-fronts","32":"tag-exclude-social-autopilot","33":"tag-football","34":"tag-from","35":"tag-fronts","36":"tag-live","37":"tag-live-sporting-events","38":"tag-local","39":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","40":"tag-logic","41":"tag-national","42":"tag-national-sports","43":"tag-new","44":"tag-new-orleans-saints","45":"tag-news","46":"tag-nfl","47":"tag-or","48":"tag-orleans","49":"tag-overall","50":"tag-overall-positive","51":"tag-paywall","52":"tag-positive","53":"tag-saints","54":"tag-scores","55":"tag-seahawks","56":"tag-seattle","57":"tag-seattle-seahawks","58":"tag-smart","59":"tag-social","60":"tag-sport","61":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","62":"tag-sporting","63":"tag-sports","64":"tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","65":"tag-sports-news","66":"tag-statistics","67":"tag-testing","68":"tag-u0026","69":"tag-widget"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70516","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=70516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}