Fair call; it's ridiculous that this can be an excuse for such a terrible performance.
Maybe you missed my point.
You put down the reported complaints from the playing group down to senior players worried about their career and so forth.
However, one of the oft reported players unhappy about the reported 'meddling' is Scully, a second year player with a 4-5 year contract on the table.
This indicates that the complaints can't be put down to senior players feeling insecure, and thus is a hole in your theory.
For what it's worth, no one's going to argue that there's no problem with our senior players, but that's neither here nor there when it comes to the plausability of your theory.