Michael Bidwill, in New York to be there when the Cardinals' Amazon/NFL Films series "All or Nothing" won a Sports Emmy Tuesday night, also did a couple of media interviews while there. At one point with Adam Schein, the Cardinals' team president was asked about the status of the team's decision about recently reinstated linebacker Daryl Washington.

Bidwill said Washington had some personal things he was taking care of out of town the following weekend after the draft, so it was this week where the Washington situation became more of a Cardinals' focal point, even though it's been a couple of weeks since Washington's reinstatement.

"I don't see this as a 30-minute meeting," Bidwill said. "There is a lot that needs to go into this and our analysis, because we haven't seen him in three years. There is a lot more process that we are going to go through than just having a meeting. I think that everyone has to be comfortable to put him back on the field.

"We're going to go through our process and hopefully have an answer, one way or the other, here soon."

Bidwill said he didn't want to get into specifics about what the team might need to hear from Washington.

"I will speak generally, we need to know that this isn't going to happen again," Bidwill said. "That he had accepted responsibility for what happened and what he'd done, and there were a couple different things that happen. ... I just think, generally, we need to know players accept responsibility, have addressed their issues in a therapeutic way in which we know professionally they are going to be good to go moving forward and that we are going to be comfortable having them around.

"Also, when you have a player off the field for three years, that's a big deal. ... We've got some more process to go through."