ROMO’S RIBS FINE; QB SHOULD PLAY

Dallas: Tony Romo should be able to keep playing through a rib injury sustained against the New York Giants after X-rays showed no structural damage.

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said on the team’s flagship radio station Monday that the quarterback will be sore but that X-rays were negative and he wouldn’t miss Sunday’s game at Kansas City. San Francisco: Jim Harbaugh offered a parting shot at Packers LB Clay Matthews: Slapping is not the tough-guy way.

Harbaugh said Monday that Matthews threw one punch and slapped 49ers LT Joe Staley when they tussled following Matthews’ late hit on QB Colin Kaepernick in the second quarter of San Francisco’s 34-28 season-opening win against Green Bay on Sunday.

“If you’re going to go to the face, come with some knuckles, not an open slap,” Harbaugh said. “I think if that young man works very hard on being a tough guy, he’ll have some repairing to do to his image after the slap.” Matthews promised leading up to the game that Green Bay would target Kaepernick after he ran for a quarterback-record 181 yards to beat the Packers in the playoffs eight months ago. NY Giants: Tom Coughlin isn’t ready to give up on RB David Wilson.

Wilson is certainly in Coughlin’s doghouse once again after fumbling twice and having one returned for a touchdown in the Giants’ six-turnover, 36-31 season-opening loss to the Cowboys on Sunday night.

The 2012 first-round pick was benched in the second half, and much of Coughlin’s conference call Monday centered on the state of the running game and whether Wilson would start this weekend against Denver.

“David Wilson is a very talented young man, who we need to be productive,” Coughlin said. “We have been down this road before. We can help him be a better ball carrier, a better secure ball carrier.” Jacksonville: Blaine Gabbert is a sideline spectator again.

The Jaguars ruled out Gabbert for Sunday’s game at Oakland after he sliced open the back of his throwing hand in the season opener. Gabbert caught his right hand on a defender’s facemask while scrambling for a 4-yard gain the closing minutes against Kansas City on Sunday. He received 15 stitches to close the wound.

He won’t be able to practice this week because of concerns that dirt and sweat could get in the wound and cause infection. The team is hopeful he will be able to play Sept. 22 at Seattle. Miami: The Dolphins hired a new president to complete a trade of sorts with the San Diego Padres.

Former Padres executive Tom Garfinkel was introduced Monday as president and chief executive officer of the Dolphins and their stadium. He succeeds Mike Dee, who coincidentally replaced Garfinkel in July as president and CEO of the Padres.

“Coincidental is the right word,” Garfinkel said at a news conference. “It just happened to be that was the case.”