Tony Romo is not a robot

A few weeks ago there was a notion that the Cowboys were coaching the instincts out of Romo, that they wanted him to be a robot in the pocket, like some sort of electric football piece. "That's the challenge for any quarterback playing in this league," assistant head coach Jason Garrett said. "It's always about your decision making. It's all about being aggressive and I don't want to say more conservative but maybe less aggressive. The more he plays the more feel he's going to have for that." Romo came within a whisker of hearing boos on the Cowboys final play of the first half. Instead of throwing the ball away after he was first accosted by an Atlanta defender, he chose to wait - even without a time out left. Had he been sacked, the clock would have run out and the Cowboys would have had a 10-7 lead. But Romo ducked away from Jonathan Babineaux, stepped out of John Abraham's arms and slid by Kroy Biermann and found Patrick Crayton for...