Cowboys' locker room is a mess

By Tom Orsborn on December 30, 2008

IRVING - Both literally and figuratively.

Ever since Wade Phillips took over, it looks like a college dorm room with clothes scattered everywhere and no sense of discipline and order.

But that's not the worst thing. It's inhabited by too many bad actors, low-character guys and locker-room lawyers.

"There were a lot of personalities put on this team and we didn' jell," linebacker Bradie James said. "We didn't find a way to jell. This past game, you could see it. I don't know if I need to go into detail. When you know you've got something on the line and you're playing to go into the playoffs, you know what you have to do, and you go out there and stink it up like that? That just speaks for itself."

"Personalities," by the way, is just code for guys like Pacman Jones, Tank Johnson and Roy Williams. They're stuck with the finger-pointing, sloppy route-running Williams, but they certainly don't need to bring back the overrated, can't-be-trusted Jones and the overrated, foul-mouthed Johnson.