re: Possible reason why offense passes just deep downfield

This is possible. The offense was very vanilla against EMU - there were none of the new wrinkle plays we saw in earlier games - shovel passes, jet sweeps - completely non-creative play calling. It's obviously all by design. Not sure why our WR weren't catching balls they should have been catching though. That is worrisome. Harris was tossing some nice balls. It just feels like we can't put everything together.