OXNARD, Calif. — Jason Witten doesn't deny that the Cowboys had a more complicated locker room with Terrell Owens in it and a different message coming from the top when Wade Phillips was the coach.
The star tight end also says those factors were far from the most important when Dallas missed the playoffs the last two times it reported to training camp as NFC East champion.
"There was a different culture, different coaches, different players, maybe some different motives at times," Witten said. "Ultimately, we just didn't make plays. For us, your ability to kind of dumb it down and say in these plays, in these games, we didn't play well.