This is what happens to me at work sometimes-I'll say something to a co-worker next to me. Subsequently, he/she will say what I said to someone else in the office, and then that someone else would say he/she was told by what that other person said I said, and then he/she would etc, etc.
Pt being that what I said to my co-worker next to me, he/she ends up taking it a slightly different context of what I said b/c of his own perceptions, and will express it that way to someone else, and then that someone else would take what the previous person said to him in another different context and say it to someone else.
Anyhow-ultimately, when it gets back to me where someone says, "I heard you said such and such", and I'm like, "I said that"??
Really-when it comes to 3rd/4th person comments, they end up getting taken WAY out of context as it goes around. Here's prolly what happened here-Owens and Bennett tell each other how they feel they're not being involved enough to help the team win. No big deal. Then Bennett tells his best friend, Carpenter, on the team how, "It sounds to me like Owens isn't happy he's not involved enough". Then Carpenter interprets that as, "It sounds like Owens isn't happy with Romo". And once it gets around a couple of more players, it sounds like, "Owens is starting to become a pain in the *** and will do everything it takes to make everyone appease him"...THIS is what gets leaked out to Werder.
So no-Werder isn't lying, per se, but he's ending up getting stuff that's 3rd/4th person. Like I said, I say things all the time at work, but a week later, someone comes to me and tells me how I said such and such, when it wasn't even close to that.