Hamin says WWE is “dumb as shi*” when it comes to getting Elias over. He couldn’t believe that Elias was punked out by a backstage announcer on RAW this week, and WWE didn’t even move him to Smackdown the next night which would have allowed him to make Smackdown his show.
Russo says there wasn’t one thing on 5 hours of WWE programming this past week that he would have kept. He wouldn’t have kept one angle or storyline.
Moving onto Smackdown, Russo points out that the typical tag team main event match was announced early in the show and he doesn’t understand why any casual viewers would care about that. Lane is discouraged by the fact that WWE has apparently given up on Daniel Bryan’s return angle already, and now he’s just another guy who wrestles on Smackdown.
Russo points out that there wasn’t a shred of structure to this show, and every segment on the show would have fit in any other place on the show. There was nothing on this show from a writing standpoint that made sense at all. Lane points to the interaction between Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy as a prime example of something that didn’t make any sense on this show.
