Have Reigns and Bryan (and Ambrose and Ziggler) surrounded by heels. Reigns helps save Bryan from certain elimination once or twice. I mean, they had already teased segments with those two working together against the Authority. They could have built that so much better, and it would have actually worked, unlike having Rocky come out to make the save.

It seemed like they had no idea how to set the rhythm of the Rumble. They completely rushed through all of the "pop" segments (DDP, the Wyatt Family Reunion, the annual Rhodes Boys donnybrook, Mizdow). Rusev coming back was an afterthought when they could have made it a moment of drama. It was just a weird, weird match.