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I think being a HC and calling plays was too much. he needed to focus on one area. I did agree with them removing Callahan from play calling duties, as the offense was pretty bad with him as the OC. I know garrett wanted his guy(s) in linehan because they had similar offensive philosophy.Just to point something out, the year we finally went 12-4 with the "offense carrying the defense" as you claim, that was the year Garrett took a step back from the offense to focus on the defense.
Now, as a current self-proclaimed Garrett hater, (who apparently blames the Earth being flat on Garrett), the 2014 defense was underrated IMO, so he did a good job there. While the offense certainly assisted with ball control, the defense improved considerably from 2013. They even stepped up and made plays that year late in games, including a play to seal the one playoff win Garrett has to his name.
I think the improvement in defense was because of the offense. I am not saying that the defense didn't improve on its own, but we played ball control, ran the ball (that was the year murray almost had 2000 yards), had effective passing game, and had other teams on the rope and forcing them to play one dimentional offense. if you know what type of play the other team will run (pass), then its much easier to defend against.
last year also exposed the weakness in defense again, specially 3rd down conversion. this defense has had trouble getting off the field and tend to extend drives. the GB playoff game was a great example. we score. have the lead. have one minute left. and still couldn't stop GB and allowed them to convert down after down..... the offense did it job. defense failed.