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In professional sports, occasionally there are scenarios where a first-place team somehow manages to pull off a trade or pick up a free agent of a very talented player.\u00a0 In most of these cases, the overarching management of these teams hardly ever take into consideration stuff like team chemistry, because most organizations believe in acquiring talent when it\u2019s available, and let the chips fall where they may afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n Typically, it\u2019s kind of a jump ball of happens afterward; sometimes the new player adds value immediately, and a good team becomes even better, but in some cases, the new player disrupts the team chemistry that made the team a first-place team, and then there is some stumbling and new struggles, as the squad tries to adjust to find its new groove.\u00a0 Sometimes, they get their shit together and make magic happen, but at least in my personal viewing experiences, they still fall short.<\/span><\/p>\n This is what I\u2019m feeling is kind of happening with the WWE and the fact that they\u2019ve handcuffed themselves to the acquisition of Cody Rhodes.<\/span><\/p>\n For about a year, if there was anything at all that was going not just smoothly, but on a legendary pace, it was definitely the Bloodline storyline.\u00a0 Roman Reigns was clearly ascending to the top of the mountain that he was always expected to reach, and he was firing on all cylinders; in the ring, cutting promos, and elevating everyone that entered his gravity.\u00a0 Roman and the Bloodline were proving the power of a well-planned, executed storyline that was more importantly given all the time in the world to breathe and organically proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n But then Cody Rhodes\u2019 contract with AEW expired, and suddenly the internet rumor mill basically exploded as it became apparent that he was not only not going to re-sign with the company he helped found, he was on his way back to the WWE; he was basically the surprisingly available talent that the WWE picked up solely because they could, but not necessarily because they needed him.<\/span><\/p>\n And much like how it happens in professional sport, every organization in the country always falls for the sunk cost fallacy, and because they paid a mint for new acquisition, they become determined to use them in a capacity relative to their salary, and not necessarily their talent or ability to fit into the puzzle.<\/span><\/p>\n Because Cody Rhodes cost the WWE a significant amount, he was immediately thrust into the upper echelon of the card, (re)debuting at Wrestlemania and fast tracked to a path to the World championship; regardless of the fact that there were all sorts of internal talents that were getting shafted by his return.\u00a0 If not for the fact that he tore his pectoral and had to be put on the bench for almost an entire year, I probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten to make this post because he probably would have already entangled with Roman Reigns at Summer Slam or Survivor Series and possibly have ended his legendary run and taken a championship off him.<\/span><\/p>\n And while he was down with injury, the Bloodline resumed their masterful storytelling, and amidst this, became planted the seed of Sami Zayn that grew into the phenomenon that\u2019s captured the attention of wrestling fans all over with how it has played out so far.\u00a0 Seriously, I didn\u2019t think much of the whole idea of Sami Zayn wanting to be a part of the Bloodline, but it\u2019s literally been the best storyline since the rise of Daniel Bryan or Kofi-Mania, and in fact better than those in terms of storytelling and how many people have risen their stock from just being a part of it.<\/span><\/p>\n But then Cody Rhodes had to go on and recover, and when it was announced that he was coming back at the Royal Rumble, it was basically a forgone conclusion that he was going to win the whole fucking thing, and obviously be fast tracked to Wrestlemania where he would fulfill his destiny (or his rumored contractual obligation to get a World championship run) and finally face Roman Reigns.<\/span><\/p>\n This is where I have this feeling like Cody Rhodes is going to ruin a beautiful storyline that\u2019s been in the making over the last three years, solely because the WWE is insisting on utilizing him as World championship material based on the size of the contract he was given.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying that Cody Rhodes won\u2019t and can\u2019t have a good match with Roman Reigns and possibly put up an instant classic, but it\u2019s going to feel more forced than it is going to feel organic.\u00a0 Which is a shame, because the beauty of the Bloodline saga has always been just how organic everything has felt because everything has been given time to sow seeds let things grow naturally over the last three years.<\/span><\/p>\n I feel like the smart play would be to have Cody lose to Roman Reigns, so that he could kind of start over and organically rise to his contention to the World championship(s), but if I\u2019m a betting man, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen.\u00a0 In reality, Roman and the Usos probably need some time off after carrying the company for the last three years, and even if the fans might not be sick of the Bloodline, the guys comprising of the Bloodline might be sick of the workload they\u2019ve had and probably wouldn\u2019t mind a little time off television to recharge.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, I like to imagine a world where a lot of the WWE guys have a group text or something, where they bitch and complain about how Cody Rhodes\u2019 return is fucking things up.\u00a0 Obviously, such is likely not the case as Rhodes is often regarded as being well respected and liked by everyone in the business, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that his return to the WWE is causing some hierarchical restructuring to where someone is getting pushed down a rung.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s just kind of sad to me, because the Bloodline has easily been the best thing in professional wrestling in a long time, but Cody Rhodes of all people is the one who\u2019s kind of fucking things up, solely because he had to become available and baited the WWE into picking him up and clearly had a lot of demands in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n If he were really as selfless as he likes to claim he is, he\u2019d have let all existing storylines play themselves out and basically kind of stand aside and call next, and by next Wrestlemania in 2024, be ready to ascend to the top of the mountain then, and maybe all the fans will be on board the story he is destined to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In professional sports, occasionally there are scenarios where a first-place team somehow manages to pull off a trade or pick up a free agent of a very talented player.\u00a0 In most of these cases, the overarching management of these teams hardly ever take into consideration stuff like 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