Watched some of the Wisconsin game tonight. Holy shit I sometimes forget how truly infuriatingly awful Petras is.
7:44 left in the game and Iowa is up 21-7 with the ball at the 19 yard line. First down was fine, short run by Sargent. Second down is the play where the Wisconsin guy comes right up to the line showing blitz and is clearly going to be unblocked. Petras somehow doesn't even see him or if he does isn't smart enough to check out of the play. He hikes it, the Wisconsin player comes screaming across and damn near intercepts the handoff which is made even worse because Petras is such a dumbfuck he knocks knees and trips his own RB. All that might be fine, but then he gets up and sort of looks around shocked and does that stupid clapping thing he does.
As if all that isn't bad enough, it is 3rd down where he is just a pants shitting dumbfuck. 3rd and 8 with 6:15 to go in the game at his own 21 yard line. First off, the play sucks. Brian has 3 wide, a TE and RB. The 2 WR's up top both run the same exact in route, most likely to clear out the CB and LB's so they can sneak Goodson out in the flat one on one against a LB in space.
Brain of course runs it to the short side, so even if it could be completed there is little to no chance that Goodson will be able to run much without going out of bounds. I get all that. It's 3rd and 8 with 6:15 to go from your own 21 with a 2 TD lead and you're trying to be safe. No problem.
The problem is that Petras doesn't have any awareness, so when he sees Goodson covered after less than 1.5 seconds he immediately flings the ball 20 yards out of bounds. Where to start with this, but it a) isn't close to anyone so the refs look at each other and contemplate a grounding call, b) he could have just eaten the ball or run forward 2 yards and went down and kept the clock running.
He did neither, so now the incompletion stops the clock with 6:10 to go when it could have been run down to 5:30 or so. He looks bewildered and runs to the sideline where Brian has a long conversation with him that seems to be mostly "What the fuck is wrong with you and what are you doing??" while Petras explains things like he is giving a speech in Rhetoric 101.
Disaster now strikes, Tory Taylor muffs the snap and kicks the ball off the ground getting an illegal kicking penalty and half the distance to the goal. That 40+ seconds that Petras now fucked away seems like it could be important with way too much time and Wisconsin likely to score and make it a 7 point game. Thankfully the defense was awesome and bailed everyone out and Mertz sucks so they didn't score.
TLDR = Petras is a turd that is going to lose Iowa multiple games unless he gets way better.