Arizona Cardinals’ Schedule 2024-2025: Dates, Times, TV Channels, Strength of Schedule, and More

The Arizona Cardinals head into 2024 hoping to bounce back from consecutive 4-13 seasons. With just one playoff appearance in the last eight years, can 2024 be the season that they turn it around?

Let’s take a look at the Cardinals’ schedule for the 2024 NFL season, where their strength of schedule (SOS) ranks, our record prediction for them, Arizona’s prime-time games, their biggest matchups of the season, and more.

Arizona Cardinals’ Schedule and Opponents

The complete 2024 NFL schedule was released on May 15 at 8 p.m. ET, and we have it in the table below (which is best viewed in landscape mode).

Cardinals’ Strength of Schedule

Unfortunately for the Cardinals, they have the 11th-toughest schedule in the NFL, based on PFN’s in-house metric. Two games against last year’s top NFC teams (the 49ers and Lions) were always going to make things tougher for the Cardinals, while both the Rams and Seahawks were fringe playoff teams in 2023-24.

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Matchups with the Panthers, Patriots, Chargers, Bears, Vikings, and Jets feel like they should be easier, but we’re projecting improvements from a handful of those teams this year. The Panthers, Patriots, and Chargers have all changed head coaches, while the Jets will be getting Aaron Rodgers back, and the Bears added Caleb Williams with the No. 1 overall pick.

Cardinals’ Record Prediction: 6-11

Arizona’s win total at DraftKings Sportsbook is 6.5, with the odds slightly favoring the over. That’s two wins higher than what their preseason win total was set at in 2023. Meanwhile, their Pythagorean win total last year (based on points scored and against) was 5.4.

The Cardinals are unlikely to be drastically different in 2024 than we saw in 2023, besides having a healthy Kyler Murray to start the season, which should help. Last season, three of Arizona’s four wins came after Murray returned in Week 10.

The biggest difference is that Arizona had a strong draft, adding 12 rookies headlined by Marvin Harrison Jr., Darius Robinson, Max Melton, and Trey Benson.

That six-win region is pretty much spot on. The Cardinals should be slightly improved, putting anywhere between five and eight wins as the likeliest outcome for the 2024 season.

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Prime-Time Games

• Week 7: Chargers at Cardinals (MNF)

This season, the Cardinals have just one prime-time game — up from zero in 2023.

While it’s not much, at least Arizona got a bit more prime-time love now that Murray is entering the season fully healthy and Harrison is receiving plenty of hype.

When Is Arizona’s Bye Week?

The Cardinals’ bye is in Week 11. They will have two weeks to prepare for their Week 12 matchup against the Seahawks.

Biggest Matchups of the Year

The three biggest matchups for the Cardinals will be against their divisional opponents — the Rams, Seahawks, and 49ers. Arizona went 0-6 in those divisional contests last year and are 1-11 within the NFC West in the last two years. The Rams also eliminated the Cardinals in their last playoff appearance, with a 34-11 victory in SoFi Stadium.

Arizona’s game against Chicago in Week 9 will be interesting as it will be the first matchup between Murray and Williams. Early last season, there was a lot of talk about whether the Cardinals would move on from Murray and target Williams in the NFL Draft. However, Arizona ultimately won four games and landed the No. 4 overall pick instead of No. 1. Now, these are two ascending offenses with a lot of young talent, so this matchup should be fun.

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One game that will certainly have a little bit of extra feeling will be when the Cardinals and Commanders face off in Week 4. This offseason saw Washington hire former Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury as its offensive coordinator. Arizona fired Kingsbury after their 4-13 campaign in 2022-23. Both sidelines will have a little extra motivation for that game.

Check out PFN’s coverage of the NFL schedule release, including the full week-by-week schedule, a breakdown of how the NFL schedule is made, top revenge games of 2024, strength of schedule rankings, our ranking of this year’s international games, and more!