is one piece episode 196 filler?

Marines are heard singing 'I don't know but I've been told' while patrolling on a bridge. One of them says that he has heard a rumor about how other marines think that their base has gotten soft because they haven't seen action.

Another vehemently argued that that is not true. Meanwhile a damaged marine warship was being fixed at a dock where workers were complaining that the ship would take a week to fix while another states that they had 3 days.

In the background Mekao is seen drinking, muttering that in the old days people used to treat their ships with respect.