Yup, if you set the the finest grind setting in your grinder.

i didn't change my last setting on my grinder (i set to finest grind setting on the machine) that i used for the previous beans that already been 2 week from roasting also you can tell that extraction that came out from the brewing. Generally, those bean that close to losing all the freshness tends to have the shot starts flowing at 5 seconds at a good rate but then suddenly you get  flowing become way too fast and comes out watery.

if you bean tends to be fresh like a fews days, normally the puck will be dry and hard. That how my machine got choke .if you beans generally about 2 weeks or more then you get muddy puck type but i never get puck stuck at the brew head before even i had tried with 2 machine, your the first case i heard before.
I'm an end user so i don do roasting, i always get my roast bean from either coffee lane or order from ymeng85 at this website. Others im not so conveniences because i went for survey and found most of this seller don put roasting date on their coffee beans but even with dates, they could just easily change the packing or alter the date and later blame that you had cheap machine.