In Patrick Queen’s first year with the Steelers, the defense suffered from a failure to communicate—or to communicate well. Speaking to reporters yesterday, he clearly expects different this season. And that, he repeated, is from the top on down, including the coaches and the new players.
“It was a lot of new people on defense last year. DeShon [Elliott], me, Payton [Wilson]”, Queen said, via Pittsburgh DSEN, about the Steelers’ defense. “When you get those kind of guys going in a rotation, you got one in the secondary and one up front, and sometimes two in the linebacker group, it’s kind of tough trying to jell with everybody, get a relationship with everybody”.