I knew after I read your post on the appreciation thread, that your next post in this thread would be something clever.
I am not sure what we paid Lutz but I still would be ok with not paying a kicker a lot of money until our offense gets better. Someone else could say the less good your offense is the better kicker you need but if you can't move the ball why spend on a kicker? In this case I believe Payton/Paton were smart with whatever the money is and Lutz is basically married to Payton at this point.