Stupid negative posters who attack players might be just the thing for Kirk to keep playing said players. A 20% improvement in seeing blitzes, audible calls, etc by either Petras or Padilla could be huge. Petras stepped up in the pocket and evaded a rush a few times but he needs to do that much better to be a starter.
But the example in the first half where I assume Brian F called a jet sweep with Bruce to the left where the formation already had two receivers which brought in 2 defenders and it was to the wide side which leveraged a linebacker and a safety more in that direction was just schematically flawed from the beginning. Plus the fact that Iowa runs to the left about 66% of the time had Bruce running into a lot of players.