{"id":665544,"date":"2026-05-12T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665544\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:29:08","slug":"nfl-schedule-leaks-arizona-cardinals-wont-face-detroit-lions-in-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665544\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL schedule leaks: Arizona Cardinals won’t face Detroit Lions in Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> have not announced their 2026 regular-season schedule, and the full schedule will not be released until Thursday, but as some of the national television matchups are revealed throughout the week, we can eliminate some of the possible matchups for the Cardinals in different weeks.<\/p>\n

One recently announced game has the Detroit Lions<\/a> on the road against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in Week 2 for the Bills’ home opener at the brand-new Highmark Stadium in a Thursday night game.<\/p>\n

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The Cardinals will face the Lions in 2026 at home. It just won’t happen in Week 2.<\/p>\n

The full schedule release will be Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals’ 2026 home and away opponents are llisted below.<\/p>\n

Arizona Cardinals’ 2026 home opponentsArizona Cardinals’ 2026 away opponents<\/p>\n

Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: NFL schedule leaks: Arizona Cardinals won’t face Detroit Lions in Week 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have not announced their 2026 regular-season schedule, and the full schedule will not be released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1258,64,63,1261,1234,1256,3055,318253,1240,29555,1250,1235,593,1260,5378,1262,1254,85,3750,1272],"class_list":["post-665544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-full-schedule","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-la-chargers","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-rams","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-the-cardinals","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}