Here's one former New England player who has no problem with the Patriot Way.
"I never had an issue with [the intense atmosphere in Foxboro]," Nate Solder, who signed this offseason with the New York Giants, told nj.com. "I feel like you should always push people to be the best that they can, and the fun comes in the level at which you're playing.
"I mean, it's not fun to lose games. It's not fun to play bad football. The fun is playing well."
Criticism of the Patriots began when the Eagles' Lane Johnson -- who, of course, has never played for New England -- carped at the Pats' way of doing businesss before, immediately after and well after the Super Bowl. It intensified when ex-Pat Cassius Marsh starting sniping at them from his new home in San Francisco (though, apparently, he wouldn't have minded so much if he'd played more).
But you won't hear anything like that out of Solder.
"They have high standards in what they demand out of people," he said. "I never had any issues with the way they pushed us and the standards they had for us at all."
