When Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen criticized his coaches for putting players in suboptimal positions to make plays against the Bears, it raised a few eyebrows.

Queen is the quarterback of the defense. He communicates the call from defensive coordinator Teryl Austin to his fellow players and gets the defense set for each play. He knows better than anyone else how the defense is expected to execute on a play-to-play basis.

Austin doesn’t shy away from the dialogue with his players. The truth is there are discussions almost every week behind closed doors in team meetings about how and why the Steelers got beat on plays.

“There’s always going to be things that happen every game where we’re not going to be happy with as coaches and they’re not happy with as players,” Austin said Thursd

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