Why not in front of Gerry. I havent question Cockrell's desire. Just his ability.
As far as I'm concerned, Gerry can sit on the bench the rest of the year. Right before half, Purdue went deep and Davie had good coverage as they were going down the field and Gerry came over from his spot and hit Davie while he was on the receiver. Luckily the ball was over thrown but it was a bullsh#t move on Gerry.
Here's the play that you are talking about:
https://vine.co/v/e3igngOqiA3/embed/simple
Looks bad... like he's blocking a teammate.... but more likely just took a horrible angle and I will take this moment to point out again...... how the heck do you blame coaching for that kind of play... you can blame them for leaving him on the field.... but if the replacement is way way worse... as a coach.... I have to ask.... what do you do? Seriously.... if that is the best we got... and its not close on the depth chart... then as a coach.... how do you coach around that kind of play?
How do you not blame coaching for that type of thing? Seriously, what do you think coaches do besides cash paychecks?
You have to be trolling because nobody can be that brain dead. Coaches teach them what to do, it isn't their fault that Gerry takes a bad angle and runs into his teammate. It is up to the players to execute what they are taught. I think it is pretty safe to say that he wasn't taught to run into Williams.
First off, you can't see the whole play from that clip. I suspect they had Gerry playing to close to Davie's side, had Gerry looking at the QB, and when he saw the QB throwing, he reacted. Being in the position he was, it caused a collision.
So he very well may have done exactly what the coaches taught him to do.
Are you suggesting that Gerry did it intentionally or do you think he's just stupid?