it was not a burial at all. they positioned it that way knowing full well that the fans would go with bryan even stronger than before.Always protected..yet bryan was a grandslam champion by year 3/4
Meanwhile even after he got fired he wss brought back not too long after the heat died down and was thrusted in to a summerslam main event and given the us title right after
For every semi negative bryan moment he hss had an equal and or greater moment. The 18 seconds reaction was a big moment yes as the fsns showed the wwe they loved the guy...but the wwe never buried bryan up until thst point and didnt have any look towards doing so with brysn afterwards
Bryan and Sheamus having a 15 minute match, win or lose, would have been worse for him, and people assuming Vince knew any differently are playing make believe.