He doesn't cost 1/3 of Mesko this season. You seem to overlook the fact that we still take a cap hit by cutting Mesko. Furthermore, Allen is an unknown quantity.
If you're going to be the forum bully, then you may want to get some of your facts correct from now on, or at least increase your average a bit. If I had a nickle for every time you were wrong I'd be a rich, rich man.
You have a lot of strong opinions berating others when 9/10 times you don't have much knowledge of what you're talking about. The Dennard and Hernandez situations are prime examples of you mocking and making fun of others when you're out in left field entirely about what the process is, and what's actually been happening.
If Mesko was costing 1.3 million dollars this year, then what would you describe as "1/3" of that cost, Mr. Calculator? What do you think it's costing to keep Allen this year?
Here's a quote furthering the point from musketfire.com :
"Mesko had just one year left on his deal, and he was set to make $1.323 million, and that’s a lot of money for a punter. Contrast that with Allen’s income,
which was set at about a third of Mesko’s pay, and it’s clear that the Patriots planned on going with Allen as long as he kept things competitive."
Mesko's dead cap hit was approx. 47,000 so that's pretty much irrelevant.
How do you know that Mesko wasn't staying beyond this year. That is just pure speculation. No one knew a damn thing about what Mesko's intentions were and that includes the reporters.
The cost of top tier punters at the moment is in the 2-3 million dollar range, and if you base the past 2 contracts they'd average to be about 4 million per year. If you think that Belichick was going to pay our punter 50% of that then you aren't too familiar with the past dealings of the team.
I think that this is pretty safe speculation, and based on what Belichick's decision was, it would seem that he agreed on some level.
You're making way too big of a deal over changing punters.
