2010 Arizona Cardinals Opponents

by CardsFan08 on Oct 5, 2009 6:31 PM MDT Comment 3 comments

Upon reading Darren Urban's blog post from this morning, I came across a very interesting comment that he made concerning the scheduled opponents for the 2010 season.

The Cards have home games against Tampa, New Orleans, Denver, Oakland and their “matching” NFC East finisher; they have road trips to Atlanta, Carolina, Kansas City, San Diego and the “matching” NFC North team).

-Darren Urban, Blog.azcardinals.com

I know that we can't count our chickens before they hatch but I do like the look of the scheduled opponents for next year. While there is not any dates set for these games yet, and who knows what state of the Cardinals will be in or any team for that matter, but based off of the current status of the teams listed I think a 10-6 year is doable with the teams listed.

Don't forget that we'd have the 49ers, Seahawks, and Rams twice in 2010 as well. So the NFC East "matching" oppenent will always be tough, the NFC North "matching" opponent can will be difficult in different aspects depending on who it is Green Bay, Bears, or Vikings, but still I look at that schedule and think 10-6 is a possibility. It would require some offseason help to fill in the voids that will be the Offensive Tackles.

What do you guys think? Too early to think about this? Focus on the present?

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the schedule is always set except for two oppontents

Six games are from the NFC West
Four games are from one of the NFC divisions (it rotates so you can track it pretty easily)
Four games are from one of the AFC divisions(again it rotates)
The final two games are from the teams in the other two NFC divisions that finish in the same place as your team (ie we play the winners of the NFC EAST and SOUTH since we won the West).

You can even track home and away for the eight games against rotating divisions by seeing where the teams played the last time they matched up in the rotation. Basically there are two unknown games every season but everything else is “projectable.”

Be careful....to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

by Bezekira on Oct 6, 2009 9:44 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm getting better about the schedule

Though I was not so sure about which NFC and AFC rotation we would play yet. Also, I thought it was interesting to see which opponents we’d be seeing at home next year. There seems to be a couple fun home games next year, like the Raiders, which I’m sure will be rowdy, but should be a win.

Section 102, Row 18

by CardsFan08 on Oct 6, 2009 6:15 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs