Input Lag/Unresponsiveness

I've never played FIFA before, but my friend asked me to play, so I gave it a go. I don't have this input delay in FIFA, offline or online. I don't have it in any other game. 

Something I posted a long time ago was about how NHL starts up. It will always shortcut boot up, and I'm not talking quick resume. Click the app and it's a grey loading screen. It will always show you the last played mode, even if you delete the game. The full reboot white EA screen -- which you cannot replicate with a factory reset, a game re-download.....anything EXCEPT clearing data offline and reloading the game offline -- appears on FIFA every single time you load the app. I find that unusual, especially since I don't have the same delay there.  

Something is wrong with how EA NHL accesses my account/cloud/save data, and I'll die on that hill. It's why if I totally delete all save data (you have to do it twice), set my Xbox to offline only, and load the game not under any account, it feels normal in free skate. But as soon as you sign in, it will ask to load cloud data. I'm not sure how to square the circle of the game sometimes performing normally (offline too) at 3-4am. One of the cleanest nights of the year happened too immediately after the servers crashed.