He ran it SLIGHTLY more in 2008.
He ran it 401 times that year, followed by 430 or so in 2009, after which the line fell into serious decline.
So the difference between 2013 (his low) and 2009 (what I'd call the midpoint) is about the same difference between the midpoint and this year (the high).
It's not an inconsequential difference, it's a substantial one.
If we only ran it 400 times in 2014 we'd be out of the playoffs.
What if we ran it 440 times? There is no way to know such things. We had 508 carries this year..
If your position is that Garrett would run it slightly more and still screw the team out of wins if he was calling plays now, congrats, I agree with that.
Where have you been? That's been basically my position all along.
I have never said we'd have run it just as much this year without Linehan.
What I keep taking issue with is your clearly erroneous statement that "he would have called it the same way as in 2013 because that's what he wants." No. Wrong. He had run it 100 times more than his 2013 low in other seasons; that's not "slightly" more, it's substantially more, making up half the difference between 2013's low and 2014's high.
If you want to say that Linehan has been a positive impact then say that and leave out the hyperbole; but it's OBVIOUS that personnel was a prime factor in why Garrett ran so little in 2012 and 2013 and it's also OBVIOUS that he would not have called 330 runs this season without Linehan.... Probably more like 420-440.
Would we have still made the playoffs? I don't know and neither do you. I'll give you that we are better with Linehan, but that is all anyone can honestly say.