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The Arizona Cardinals have the best center in the NFL entering 2021, but will also five top centers on their schedule this year.
The Arizona Cardinals have the league’s best center in Rodney Hudson. But the Cardinals will face a number of the best centers in the league.
In fact, they will face five of the 11 best centers in the league, based on Mark Schofield’s rankings for Touchdown Wire.
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The Arizona Cardinals will have four games against 5 of the league’s top guards — Quenton Nelson, Zack Martin, Joel Bitonio, Wyatt Teller and Rodger Saffold.
The Arizona Cardinals have a solid offensive line and hope to get good guard play this coming season with Justin Pugh and whoever wins the competition at right guard. However, the defense will face some top guards in the league.
Based on Mark Schofield’s list of the top 11 guards in the NFL, the Cardinals will face five of them in four games.
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They face Aaron Donald, DeForest Buckner, Kenny Clark and Akiem Hicks in five games.
The Arizona Cardinals, like every team in the NFL, will face top players at every position over the course of the season. In terms of interior defensive linemen, Touchdown Wire’s Doug Farrar ranked the top 11 interior defenders in the league entering this coming season.
The Cardinals will face four of them in a total of five games. What teams and what players are they?
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It is not the first time the Arizona Cardinals will play on Christmas Day, It is the third, but it will be the first time not against the Dallas Cowboys.
The release of the 2021 Arizona Cardinals schedule shows they will host the Indianapolis Colts on Christmas Day in Week 16. It is one of three nationally broadcast games in primer time at State Farms Stadium this season. It will be a first for the franchise, but not for what you think.
The Cardinals have played on Christmas Day before in prime time.
However, as noted by Touchdown Wire’s Mark Lane, it will be the first the Cardinals face a team other than the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas Day.
The Cardinals have twice played on Christmas against the Cowboys. They did once in 1995 at Sun Devil Stadium. The Cowboys won that game 37-13. Troy Aikman threw two touchdown passes and the Cardinals did not score an offensive touchdown. The only time they found the end zone was an interception returned for a score by cornerback Aeneas Williams.
In 2010, the two teams met again, this time in Dallas. John Skelton was making his first NFL start and facing Jon Kitna because Cowboys starter Tomy Romo was injured.
Kitna got injured and Stephen McGee replaced him. The epic Skelton-McGee matchup ended with the Cardinals kicking a last-second field goal to win 27-26.
The Cardinals will now face the Colts at State Farm Stadium with a 1-1 record on Christmas Day.
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They last played on Christmas Day in 2010.
The Arizona Cardinals and the NFL will announce the full regular-season schedule for 2021 Wednesday evening, but a few tidbits have been leaked. We know the Cardinals will open on the road against the Tennessee Titans and will not play an international game this season.
We have another bit of information. According to Pro Football Focus and also reported by Bleacher Report’s Master Teftatsion, the Cardinals will play on Christmas Day, which falls on a Saturday.
They will host the Indianapolis Colts.
The Cardinals played on Christmas Day in 2010, defeating the Dallas Cowboys 27-26 on a last-second field goal after rookie quarterback John Skelton led the final drive.
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Arizona has four games so far in 2021 facing opposing quarterbacks on new teams after being traded.
The Arizona Cardinals are now set to face three opposing starting quarterbacks new to their team after being traded this offseason. The latest movement in the quarterback carousel is Carson Wentz.
The Philadelphia Eagles and Indianapolis Colts agreed to a trade that sends Wentz to the Colts and two draft picks to the Eagles.
The Colts needed a new starting quarterback after Philip Rivers announced his retirement. Wentz is reunited with Colts head coach Frank Reich, who was offensive coordinator for the Eagles in 2017 when Wentz had an MVP-type season before injuring his knee and the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
The Cardinals, who face the AFC South this coming season, will face Wentz and the Colts at State Farm Stadium. Wentz has started against the Cardinals once in his career. In 2017, he threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns in a 34-7 win in Philadelphia.
The Cardinals will now play four games in 2021 against quarterbacks with a new team after being traded. They face the Los Angeles Rams twice, who acquired Matthew Stafford from the Detroit Lions and they will play the Lions on the road, who got former Rams starter Jared Goff in the Stafford deal.
They could face many quarterbacks in new uniforms. There is uncertainty about the quarterback situation in San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and Houston, while Jacksonville is likely going to have a rookie starter.
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