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Weber is 35 and won’t play out the rest of his contract. On the scenario here, based on what you said the recapture penalty will be 5M for 5 season. Let’s say you do retain 2.5M, the jets are still hit with a 3.33M recapture penalty. That’s said, recapture doesn’t entirely work that simple and the figure is probably closer to 2M per. That is a lot to have on you books for 5 more years, so no, it’s not insignificant. Therefore, paying a first for Weber is unreasonable and isn’t happening even if he did approve a move to Winnipeg. Clearly you don’t see it, but that contract doesn’t carry a lot of value.
As for chiarot, he’s good but he’s not a 2nd and a 3rd good. There will be other options available in the summer, not that the jets will be looking for someone on the left side anyway.