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I think his role in 2019 is exaggerated.

Ok, not to argue but just to make a point...

In 2018, LSU had Joe Burrow, CEH, Justin Jefferson, Chase, Thad Moss, etc...

With those same players in 2019, look at the difference. That's not all a year of player development that led to that season. It's much more than that.

I made this analogy in another post, and I think it's worth repeating:

Think of offenses like you would a race car team.
You have a driver, and you have the car (and all the mechanics and engineers designing and maintaining that car). Brady (and Peetz for that matter) are the engineers, coming up with new plays designed to twist defenses around. They are making that "car" as solid as possible. High horsepower, good gear ratio, suspension etc. Ensminger was the driver, calling the plays. He had experience and a feel, knew when he could push things. Sensed when something would work.

Ensminger without Brady is a guy with a 60's Indy Car, that just can't handle and perform like a new car can. Brady (or Peetz) by himself is like any office engineer behind the wheel of an Indy Car, doesn't have the "feel" yet, might lag behind going a few mph less than he could, or might lose it in a curve and hit the wall.

I think Ensminger knew/saw on the fly what was working, and what WOULD work; and then Brady knew what plays Ensminger was asking for.
Without Brady's playbook, Ensminger was limited. Without Ensminger calling, the playbook was just a bunch of random plays.

I don't know about Brady at Carolina, but with Peetz, there was only one game where you could tell he found something. That was the Florida game; Bama etc didn't run on Florida, you had no reason to suspect they were particularly weak or vulnerable to something. Peetz stumbled into that off-tackle counter run, which wasn't 1) something LSU had shown any success with, and B) hadn't hurt Florida in the past. It worked, it did again, and again, and -- frick, throw the script out, run this play over and over until they stop it. They never did, TDP sets a record and we win.

You saw this happen often in 2019, OU can't handle Jefferson, different teams can't handle different players and plays. Ensminger with Brady's plays would find those, and LSU would score a ton. I see Kelly is considering keeping Peetz around. I think Kelly is as good (or better) with offenses as Ensminger was, so maybe he likes the playbook. He, or someone else with some experience calling, can use that. Not sure Brady is up to calling them all the time, and feeling out what's working in any given drive.