2012 NFL Schedule Released: Cowboys Vs. Giants Open Season

The Cardinals full schedule is included below.

Week 1: Sunday, September 9th, vs. Seattle Seahawks, 1:15 PM PT

The 49ers will open up with a three-game slate against the NFC North, two of which will come on the road, before heading into their Week 9 bye with a pair of primetime games against the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals. The second half of the season might not matter much if San Fran’s unable to enter the bye week with momentum.

The team’s full schedule is included below.

Here is the full 2012 San Diego Chargers regular season schedule:

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The Seahawks full schedule is included below.

Week 1: Sept. 9 - at Arizona Cardinals

Week 2: Sept. 16 - vs Dallas Cowboys

Week 3: Sept. 24 - vs Green Bay Packers (Monday Night Football)

Week 4: Sept. 30 - at St. Louis Rams

Week 5: Oct. 7 - at Carolina Panthers

Week 6: Oct. 14 - vs New England Patriots

Week 7: Oct. 18 - at San Francisco 49ers (Thursday Night Football

Week 8: Oct. 28 - at Detroit Lions

Week 9: Nov. 4 - vs Minnesota Vikings

Week 10: Nov. 11 - vs New York Jets

Week 11: Nov. 18 - BYE

Week 12: Nov. 25 - at Miami Dolphins

Week 13: Dec. 2 - at Chicago Bears

Week 14: Dec. 9 - vs Arizona Cardinals

Week 15: Dec. 16 - at Buffalo Bills (in Toronto)

Week 16: Dec. 23 - vs San Francisco 49ers

Week 17: Dec. 30 - vs St. Louis Rams

Here is the full 2012 Kansas City Chiefs regular season schedule:

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The 2012 NFL schedule was released on Tuesday. Here’s what the Broncos will be facing in the fall:

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The full schedule is included below, but if one wants to get the goods, SB Nation Bay Area has already decided which games Oakland actually has a chance at winning.

Week 2: Raiders @ Dolphins: Sun Sept. 16, 1:15 Pacific (CBS)

Here is the full 2012 New York Jets season schedule:

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The Giants will be on primetime five times in the 2012 season -- vs. Cowboys, at Panthers, at Eagles, vs. Packers and at Redskins. The game I’m looking forward to the most would probably be that Packers came after their thrilled in last year’s regular season.

Here’s the full 2012 schedule for the defending champs:

If the Bears are able to exit their opening two-week stretch unscathed, there’s a good chance the optimism emanating from Chicago makes sense. If it gets ugly early, however, Bears fans might be in for a long ride.

The team’s full schedule is included below.

But things will be much more difficult after that. Games against the 49ers and Lions in Week 3 and 4, respectively, won’t be easy. The Vikings will also have a lot of divisional games late in the year with four of their final six games coming against the Bears and Packers.

Here’s a look at the Vikings complete 2012 schedule:

The Lions will likely be playoff contenders this season, but it’ll be much easier to gauge exactly where they’re at when they enter their bye in Week 5 of the NFL season. Detroit opens with games against the Rams, 49ers, Titans and Vikings, their NFC North rivals, before being given a week to recuperate at the beginning of October.

Week 1 - Sept. 9 - vs. St. Louis Rams

Week 2 - Sept. 16 - at San Francisco 49ers

Week 3 - Sept. 23 - at Tennessee Titans

Week 4 - Sept. 30 - vs. Minnesota Vikings

Week 5 - BYE

Week 6 - Oct. 14 - at Philadelphia Eagles

Week 7 - Oct. 22 - at Chicago Bears

Week 8 - Oct. 28 - vs. Seattle Seahawks

Week 9 - Nov. 4 - at Jacksonville Jaguars

Week 10 - Nov. 11 - at Minnesota Vikings

Week 11 - Nov. 18 - vs. Green Bay Packers

Week 12 - Nov. 22 - vs. Houston Texans

Week 13 - Dec. 2 - vs. Indianapolis Colts

Week 14 - Dec. 9 - at Green Bay Packers

Week 15 - Dec. 16 - at Arizona Cardinals

Week 16 - Dec. 22 - vs. Atlanta Falcons

Week 17 - Dec. 30 - vs. Chicago Bears

On Tuesday, the NFL released the 2012 regular season schedule, so the Bulls now know what they’ll be facing all year. They’ll have the spring and the summer to prepare for the fall, study up on opponents and focus on areas that need addressing.

One of the roughest parts of the schedule for the Bills will be right at the outset, as they will play four of their first six games on the road.

Here is the complete Washington Redskins 2012 schedule:

Week 1: Sept. 9 at New Orleans

Week 2: Sept. 16 at St. Louis

Week 3: Sept. 23 Cincinnati

Week 4: Sept. 30 at Tampa Bay

Week 5: Oct. 7 Atlanta

Week 6: Oct. 14 Minnesota

Week 7: Oct. 21 at New York Giants

Week 8: Oct. 28 at Pittsburgh

Week 9: Nov. 4 Carolina

Week 10: Bye

Week 11: Nov. 18 Philadelphia

Week 12: Nov. 22 at Dallas

Week 13: Dec. 3 New York Giants

Week 14: Dec. 9 Baltimore

Week 15: Dec. 16 at Cleveland

Week 16: Dec. 23 at Philadelphia

Week 17: Dec. 30 Dallas

Here is the complete Philadelphia Eagles 2012 schedule:

Week 1: Sept. 9 at Cleveland

Week 2: Sept. 16 Baltimore

Week 3: Sept. 23 at Arizona

Week 4: Sept. 30 New York Giants

Week 5: Oct. 7 at Pittsburgh

Week 6: Oct. 14 Detroit

Week 7: Bye

Week 8: Oct. 28 Atlanta

Week 9: Nov. 5 at New Orleans

Week 10: Nov. 11 Dallas

Week 11: Nov. 18 at Washington

Week 12: Nov. 26 Carolina

Week 13: Dec. 2 at Dallas

Week 14: Dec. 9 at Tampa Bay

Week 15: Dec. 13 Cincinnati

Week 16: Dec. 23 Washington

Week 17: Dec. 30 at New York Giants

That’s the schedule as a whole, but the draw wasn’t kind to them in Week 1. They start the year on Monday Night Football, visiting the Baltimore Ravens. They play Baltimore in the last week of the season as well, part of a nasty stretch following away games against Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

For more on the Bengals, head over to Cincinnati Bengals blog Cincy Jungle.

For more on the Steelers, head over to Pittsburgh Steelers blog Behind The Steel Curtain and SB Nation Pittsburgh.

On Tuesday, the full 2012 NFL season schedule was released. The Titans can now begin formulating a game plan and accumulating all the hours of videotape of opponents that the coaching staff will need to pore over for the next several months.

The Titans will have an uphill climb right away, as three of their first four games will come against 2011 playoff teams.

Last year the NFL started tweaking the scheduling process to ensure that Week 17 would feature games by teams in the same division. The idea behind it, according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, is that those games would be more meaningful late in the year with potential playoff spots up for grabs.

The NFL didn’t make any changes this year and Week 17 includes only divisional games. One of these games will be flexed to the Sunday night game, which will be the last game of the 2012 regular season.

The 2012 NFL schedule was released on Tuesday night and you can already see the storylines developing in Week 1 -- and we haven’t even hit the NFL draft yet. Here are a few of the top storylines that popped to my mind as I skimmed through the first week on the NFL schedule.

Saints’ first game post-bounty probe. The Redskins may be lucky they’re playing the Saints early in the season, because several Saints players could be suspended as a result of the bounty investigation. What’s going to happen if multiple players are suspended for Week 1?

Here is the complete “Monday Night Football” schedule for the 2012 season:

Week 1: Bengals vs. Ravens

NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” schedule is as follows:

Week 1: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Denver Broncos

Here is the full 2012 New Orleans Saints schedule:

Week 6: BYE

The NFL expanded the NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football” schedule from eight weeks in 2011 to 13 weeks in 2012. The Thursday night schedule now runs from Week 2 all the way through Week 15. This enhanced Thursday night schedule is why every team will get a chance to play in primetime this season.

Here’s a look at the entire “Thursday Night Football” schedule for 2012:

The rest of the NFL schedule -- all 256 games -- can be seen at this link.

The NFL schedule officially starts on Sept. 5 when the defending Super Bowl champion Giants host the Cowboys. The first game on the schedule is traditionally reserved for the defending Super Bowl champions.