Auto pass broken

I've been trying to use "auto pass" in madden for a couple days now, I've gotten really frustrated because sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. But everytime so far for some reason my players won't run, won't execute ball carrier moves, stand still on defense, etc making it impossible to play. Please help I've been through all the settings but I can't find anything to fix this. Is it possible to not control any players, or give more control to ai that controls my selected player?