The McKenzie game colored people's perception of him. Prior to that he had the nice play at the end of the wind game and seemed like a nice depth player. Vitriol for him was not rational. But every fanbase needs a few punching bags.
I would worry about replacing these 4th/5th corners without BB. Guy had a preternatural ability to coach up DBs.
The McKenzie game happened at the end of 2021. Prior to that game, he had never played more than 63% of the snaps in any game in his career (except for the 54-13 blowout earlier in the year) anx the wind game a few weeks before the McKenzie game when he played 93% of the snaps. His next two highest totals were 53% twice.
He played 93% of the snaps in the wind game. Then he went back down to 40% the next week, then 87% in the McKenzie game and 85% in the following blowout (50-10) and then he was benched for the final game and played 41% of the snaps in the playoff game.
The game didn't cloud anyone's judgment, outside of the wind game, it was Bryant's first real opportunity to show something and he fell on his face. Then in 2022, he came out and played 53% of the snaps in week one, jumped to over 80% in week 2 and then fluctuated for the rest of the season from 44% to 100% of the snaps in a given game. Then in 2023, he got the 4th most snaps of anyone on defense and he got beat like a turnstile, do I need to reiterate, he gave up 62 completions on 82 targets, a QB rating of 103.
I can promise nothing is clouding my perception of Myles Bryant except watching him play. He was terrible.