DMN: Marcus Spears admits he hasn’t lived up to 1st rd hype, hopes being on left side

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DMN: Marcus Spears admits he hasn’t lived up to 1st rd hype, hopes being on left side

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By SportsDayDFW sports
websports@dallasnews.com
8:00 pm on June 23, 2012 | Permalink

There is no question Marcus Spears struggled last year.

The seven-year veteran defensive end was moved from the left to the right side, a switch he described as ‘uncomfortable.’ His numbers reflected it as he only recorded 29 tackles and one sack.

“It was a new position I’ve never played before. I’m a team guys and tried to do whatever helped us win, but I had some problems with it,” Spears said before competing in the Josh Howard celebrity basketball game on Saturday evening. “It’s like telling a right-handed shooter to shoot left-handed. It was completely different.”

But Spears will be back on the left side this season and says he hopes to make a bigger impact in 2012 after never truly producing like his first-round draft status suggested he would.

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