2007 Arizona Cardinals season | |
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Owner | Bill Bidwill |
General manager | Rod Graves |
Head coach | Ken Whisenhunt |
Home field | University of Phoenix Stadium |
Results | |
Record | 8–8 |
Division place | 2nd NFC West |
Playoff finish | Did not qualify |
Pro Bowlers | WR Larry Fitzgerald DT Darnell Dockett |
Uniform | |
The 2007 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 88th in the National Football League (NFL), their 20th in Arizona and their first under head coach Ken Whisenhunt. They improved upon their 5–11 record in 2006 after finishing last place in the NFC West, by finishing 8–8, but the failure of the Cardinals to qualify for the Super Bowl marked the 23rd consecutive year in which the Super Bowl did not include the team in whose region the game was being played in; Super Bowl XIV and Super Bowl XIX were the only postseasons with such an occurrence before 2007.
Two losses to the San Francisco 49ers, who won only five games that season, came back to haunt them in the end, as they were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention for the ninth straight season. Nonetheless, Pro Football Reference argues that the 2007 Cardinals had the easiest schedule of any non-playoff team since the 1965 Eagles:[1] they never opposed any team with a better record than 10–6 in any of their sixteen games.