Of all the things that I'd expected, Patrick Queen would become in our city, I really didn't think polarizing would be one of them.

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The team is still engaged in OTAs.

That'll continue today.

The only media access will be to interview a slew of assistant coaches, which will be kind of cool.

Tomorrow it'll be full access for the media, and I'm obviously looking forward to that.

My gut feel is that the expectations around here for Queen were set at one of two levels.

One was that he was going to be the Roquan Smith that the Steelers had

failed to secure from Chicago when he was available, especially since the two of them became

teammates in Baltimore, and there was a time there with the Ravens where you could hardly tell

the two apart. Or two, Queen was going to be held to the same standard as inside

linebackers from the past, I don't know, 15, 20 years, as if that's still the same position

that it was then. Or maybe it's a mix of both. Regardless, the result has been that he hasn't been,

I don't think even accepted, much less embraced by the fan base here.

And that's fine.

That's for the fans to decide.

My own feelings on Queen.

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