The Cardinals still are making plans with how they are going to handle their travel to London to play the Rams -- the date remains TBD -- but Wednesday at the NFL owners meetings, Bruce Arians knocked down one possibility: The Cardinals will likely not take one of their East Coast road games (Washington, Philly) and fly from there to London. Instead, the Cardinals will likely play a home game and then leave from Sky Harbor the next day.

"Our plan is to leave from here," Arians said. "We don't know. We haven't gotten it all finalized. But Michael (Bidwill) has made that trip so many times that we feel right now we would probably leave Monday night. When we went to Berlin (with the Chiefs in 1990) quite a few years back, we got off the plane and went right to practice and broke a sweat.

"We'll get off and do a glorified walkthrough practice, break-a-sweat deal, and then get acclimated to that time, and then go into a normal week."

The Cardinals, as do most teams returning from a London game, are expected to have a bye the week following the London game.

"The jet lag is a bitch when you get back," Arians said. "I can't imagine, even on the East Coast even though it's a five-hour flight. It's probably not as bad as going from Miami to Seattle and playing the next week. It's kind of like that. That's really hard on your guys. You have to be aware of how tired they are."

Alas, there is still no date for the London game, which will be either Oct. 22 or Oct. 29. At this point, it is not expected to be announced until the full NFL schedule is released sometime in mid-April.