The Cardinals open the regular season Sunday in New Orleans, but even with a two-hour time difference, the team will not leave for Louisiana until Saturday morning.

This is a change for Jonathan Gannon's team as they work to maximize their chance to win road games.

"We tweaked it a little bit," the coach said. "Talked to the experts. It is a little bit of a change of how we have handled that."

Previously, the Cardinals had often made a two-hour time difference game a trip that left on Friday. This season's schedule, given the rest of the country switching clocks in early November, has the Cardinals playing only one game with a three-hour time difference from Arizona -- the Cardinals play in Indianapolis Week 6. All the other games, including a game in Tampa, will only feature two-hour differences maximum.

This is by far the best roster Gannon has had since taking over, but the Cardinals are 4-13 on the road in his first two seasons, so the team sought a new way to help change those results.

"We talked to our guys (last week) about the advantages of how we're doing it and the disadvantages, and how to negate the disadvantages," Gannon said. "I feel good where we are at."