Making Sense Of Chase Winovich’s Dwindling Playing Time

People are trying to make sense of Chase Winovich’s dwindling playing time for the Patriots. The New England Patriots are very much in a hole right now and it could be awhile before they are able to come back from it. Cam Newton and the offensive have been struggling in a huge way which is one reason why people are looking for change.

Bill Belichick talked about what the Patriots were trying to do to get back on track. Sadly, it doesn’t really seem like it is working. Take a look at what he had to say.

“Today’s an important day in our preparation for the Broncos,” Belichick said. “We’ve had several days now of virtual meetings between the staff members and from the staff to the players. We’ve been able to cover a lot of things, but we haven’t spent any time together, so today’s our opportunity to do that. We look forward to that. One thing that we’ve learned this year repeatedly has been we have to be ready to adjust and adapt to changes and modifications and the way we do things and, in some cases, decisions that really come down to a very short amount of time that we have to be ready to adjust to.”

“So we’re certainly taking things day by day — probably hour by hour would be more accurate. We’ll just see how we progress and then as we find out more on our end, or if there are other things externally that we can’t control that, then we’ll deal with those as they come. That’s the way it’s been all year. I think our team and our players have done a good job of handling those adjustments, and we’ll continue to do that.”

Making Sense Of Chase Winovich’s Dwindling Playing Time

Now people have taken notice at something interesting. Chase Winovich has not been playing very much.

Winovich only played for five defensive snaps against Buffalo. This was a career low for the 2019 third-round draft pick. He also lined up for one other but was blown dead for a pre-snap penalty.

This is becoming a trend for Winovich. It first started against the Denver Broncos.

He started the season playing 67.7 percent, 74.6 percent, 54.2 percent and 66.1 percent of snaps in the Patriots’ first four games. Winovich then played in only 34.4 percent against the Broncos (22 of 64). Then, the next week against San Francisco, he played a season-low 19.7 percent.

This appears to be personnel based. But what do you think about it?