Manish Mehta is not the organization.
You're absolutely right, but that doesn't mean people inside the organization aren't upset about it.
It makes sense anyway. It hurts the Jets bargaining position if they're already (secretly) all-in on Douglas. I'm with you in terms of "they better not lose him over money" but they also shouldn't give him overwhelming power if they don't have to. Then again, if he can run things like a competent manager he's already better than ownership, so maybe they should.