Is your argument that paying FAs is better than signing your own guys?
The Patriots selectively pay their guys, as we should. You don't think the Patriots would have extended Smith and Frederick and Martin? Are you suggesting we shouldn't have? We let Murray walk, just like Pats would have. Over the last decade, we've drafted a lot better than the Pats (in part because we've drafted earlier, on average), so we're going to have more guys like Smith, Frederick, and Martin to make those calls on.
Outside of Crawford, who have we re-signed that we shouldn't have, with the exception injuries that we couldn't have predicted?
As for Prescott, let's wait until the Cowboys actually give him 27-30 before disparaging them for doing so, yeah?