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OSU notebook: Guard picks a bad night to play his best game
Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:13 AM
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
It has happened to most people at work. You get a compliment from the boss, but it comes during an otherwise bad week for the organization, so you can't go skipping down the hall. It happened this week to right guard Ben Person, who was called for holding on a play that negated what would have been Ohio State's only touchdown Saturday in a 35-3 loss at Southern California.
"I thought that Ben Person played better Saturday than he did his first two games," coach Jim Tressel said.
Not that he told Person that, but word got back to the senior.
"It's one of those things where you don't necessarily pat yourself on the back," Person said. "It's just, 'All right. It was week three, and I played better than I did in week two and week one.' "
But it was against the nation's top-ranked team "and you want to play well on the big stage," Person said. "I thought I played OK. But just because it was my best game doesn't mean it was that good of a game."
He said the offensive line is judged as a group, and there was certainly no group bow, not after scoring only three points.
"We've talked about that the past few days and we know we've got to play faster, got to play harder, just a lot of things we've got to do, and things we are capable of doing," Person said. "We just have to execute. The offense basically lives and dies with us. We have to get better. That's the bottom line."
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