This yr’s schedule launch video options linebacker Mack Wilson Sr. rapping in regards to the staff’s video games.
PHOENIX — Over the previous few years, the NFL Schedule Launch Day has grow to be a artistic manner for groups to drum up hype for the upcoming season and even a chance to go viral.
Lately, groups have utilized “man on the street” skits, anime and even cult-classic motion pictures to assist showcase their new schedules.
And this yr is not any completely different.
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What was the reception of the video like? Properly, NFL insider and host Kyle Brandt overrated the video earlier than it was even launched.
“Watch out for the Cardinals,” he stated. “They’re gonna hit us with a good video. Maybe the best video.”
NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport additionally teased the video in an look on ESPN’s ‘Pat McAfee Show’ and stated the Cardinals’ schedule launched video was going to be “a banger.”
And what a banger it turned out to be. The Cardinals launched their schedule by means of a music video, titled “18 Bars,” the place linebacker Mack Wilson Sr., going by the stage title Rocketship, raps in regards to the opponents the Cardinals will probably be dealing with and when. The Cardinals have additionally launched the track on Apple Music and Spotify.
Check out the complete video beneath.
Wilson, who collaborated with Bighead Music Group to create the track for the schedule launch video, can be a part of the group “3rd&Go,” which options two of his former teammates with the Cardinals, Zach Pascal and Jesse Luketa. The group launched and EP known as “Its Us (Volume 1)” final yr on Apple Music.
Arizona Cardinals 2025-26 Schedule
Except for the video, listed below are a number of the notable video games that stand out within the schedule:
- The Cardinals can have a Thursday Evening Soccer sport towards the Seattle Seahawks in Week 4
- Arizona returns to Monday Evening Soccer with a highway sport towards the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9
Arizona’s season kicks off on the highway towards the New Orleans Saints and the Cardinals is not going to play a world sport this season. Right here’s a take a look at the remainder of the schedule, week by week. All occasions are Arizona time.
- Week 1: @ New Orleans Saints, Sept. 7, 10:00 a.m.
- Week 2: vs. Carolina Panthers, Sept. 14, 1:05 p.m.
- Week 3: @ San Francisco 49ers, Sept. 21, 1:25 p.m.
- Week 4: vs. Seattle Seahawks, Thu., Sept. 25, 5:15 p.m. (Thursday Evening Soccer)
- Week 5: vs. Tennessee Titans, Oct. 5, 1:05 p.m.
- Week 6: @ Indianapolis Colts, Oct. 12, 10:00 a.m.
- Week 7: vs. Inexperienced Bay Packers, Oct. 19, 1:25 p.m.
- Week 8: BYE
- Week 9: @ Dallas Cowboys, Mon. Nov. 3, 6:15 p.m. (Monday Evening Soccer)
- Week 10: @ Seattle Seahawks, Nov. 9, 2:05 p.m.
- Week 11: vs. San Francisco 49ers, Nov. 16, 2:05 p.m.
- Week 12: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, Nov. 23, 2:05 p.m.
- Week 13: @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Nov. 30, 11:00 a.m.
- Week 14: vs. Los Angeles Rams, Dec. 7, 2:25 p.m.
- Week 15: @ Houston Texans, Dec. 14, 11:00 a.m.
- Week 16: vs. Atlanta Falcons, Dec. 21, 2:05 p.m.
- Week 17: @ Cincinnati Bengals, Dec. 27 or 28, time TBD
- Week 18: @ Los Angeles Rams, Jan. 3 or 4, 2026, time TBD
Arizona Cardinals 2025 Preseason Schedule
- Week 1: vs. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Aug. 7-10, actual date and time TBD
- Week 2: at Denver Broncos, Aug. 14-18, actual date and time TBD
- Week 3: vs. Las Vegas Raiders, Aug. 21-24, actual date and time TBD


This will probably be third straight season that the Cardinals will open their season on the highway and will probably be the simply fourth time that the Cardinals have performed the Saints in a season opener, together with the 1982, 1983, and 2015 seasons.
The Cardinals’ Week 17 matchup towards the Bengals has been named as one in every of 5 designated video games for that week. Two of the designated video games will probably be performed on Saturday and three on Sunday, until they’re flexed to play on Thursday Evening Soccer, Sunday Evening Soccer or Monday Evening Soccer.
The NFL will decide the dates and occasions for Week 18 video games on the conclusion of Week 17.
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Arizona sports activities
The town of Phoenix is dwelling to 4 main skilled sports activities league groups; The NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, NBA’s Phoenix Suns, WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Cardinals have made State Farm Stadium in Glendale their dwelling turf and the Footprint Heart in downtown Phoenix is dwelling to each the Suns and the Mercury. The Indoor Soccer League’s Arizona Rattlers play at Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale.
Phoenix additionally has a soccer staff with the USL’s Phoenix Rising FC, who play at Phoenix Rising FC Stadium in Phoenix.
The Valley hosts a number of main sporting occasions yearly, together with faculty soccer’s Fiesta Bowl and Assured Fee Bowl; the PGA Tour’s highest-attended occasion, the WM Phoenix Open; NASCAR occasions every spring and fall, together with Championship Weekend in November; and Cactus League Spring Coaching for 15 Main League Baseball franchises.
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