Baking Cookies Disaster

All I'm trying to do is bake a simple made from scratch chocolate chip cookie recipe. Every single time I attempt to bake cookies they come out puffy. I've tried dozens of recipes and the result is still the same. Puffy cookies. I just want flat thin cookies. Even following Alton brown's recipe (thin recipe) to the letter still resulted in the same puffy cookies.

I've adjusted just about everything I could think of adding more or less flour, baking soda, eggs, sugar, adding milk in some cases even water. I use baking soda, measure exactly, ingredients are at room temperature. If I cut back on the flour to just 2 cups instead of 2 1/4 cups I get "flatter" cookie its still puffy like a pancake with a smooth surface.

The only thing I can think of now is the ingredients I use are "too fresh" I get fresh eggs daily from my chickens and the butter I use is Kerry Gold Butter and tried Land o Lakes with the same results. I don't know what else to do. I hate to go back to buying preservative cookie dough they sit in my stomach like a rock.

Tips?