When Cassius Marsh was released by the Patriots after nine games in 2017 and picked up by the 49ers, he wasted now time going after the Patriots' culture.
“They don’t have fun there,” Marsh said. “There’s nothing fun about it. There’s nothing happy about it. I didn’t enjoy any of my time there, you know what I’m saying? It made me, for the first time in my life, think about not playing football because I hated it that much.”
Appearing on The Ringer’s “Flying Coach” podcast recently, Giants coach Joe Judge, who was with the Patriots at the time, told a story of how Julian Edelman responded.
“When we came out of that whole deal in 2017 where it was like … ‘It’s not fun, it’s this, it’s that’ … there was a white grease board on the wall (at Gillette Stadium), and it was blank,” Judge told hosts Sean McVay and Peter Schrager. “He walked in and wrote in the middle of the board, ‘Winning is fun.’ And it was something everyone read as they walked in every day.
” … He kind of spread the message to the entire team of, ‘Hey guys, you want to have fun? Winning is fun. We do everything we can to win here.’"
Marsh went after the Patriots again this week, saying they treat their players like crap.