Cardinals Have One of Toughest 2023 NFL Schedules

The Arizona Cardinals sit just outside the top ten of the NFL's toughest schedules heading into next year.

The Arizona Cardinals have one of the toughest schedules heading into next year, according to NFL Research. 

The Cardinals have a strength of schedule (combined opponents winning percentage from last season) of .519, sitting just outside of the top ten in that regard. That puts them sixth in the NFC and second in their division behind the Los Angeles Rams (.533). 

Per ⁦@NFLResearch⁩:

Eagles have the “most difficult” 2023 strength-of-schedule.

Falcons have the “easiest”.

**(Past performance not necessarily indicative of future results.) pic.twitter.com/ylyP2aT3jW

— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) May 9, 2023

While we don't yet know the order of the games, we do know who the Cardinals will be playing:

Home: Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons

Away: Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Commanders, Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Houston Texans

The league will unveil the entire schedule on Thursday, May 11 on a primetime event set to be at 5:00 PM PST. 

NBC Sports' Peter King reported earlier this week the NFL was looking into the possibility of teams not appearing on Thursday Night Football with their new ability to flex games in/out of the primetime slate.

"But now that the league passed a rule in March allowing teams to play short-week Thursday games twice instead of once, that could empower the league to eliminate some of the teams that look like bad ones from prime time in favor of maxing out some teams with two Thursday games," said King.

"So Arizona might be left out this year, and maybe Tampa Bay or Houston. Stronger teams could find two Amazon games on the schedule, which would serve two purposes—strengthening a streaming schedule the NFL badly wants to work for Amazon, and giving good but not great teams with major national followings (Pittsburgh or Green Bay or New England, perhaps, this year) another primetime appearance."

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