"The disconnect between Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts is now apparent to everyone.

If you haven't been paying attention to the signals owner Jim Irsay has been sending with his comments over the past few months -- and trust me, people I've been talking to have -- Manning's extensive interview with the Indianapolis Star makes it abundantly clear.

Manning is now a stranger in a familiar land; a stranger in the very stadium he built. The coaching staff and front office have been blown out, and while Peyton's been watching everything unfold from inside team headquarters, he's still completely cut off from it all. It's not his franchise anymore. The Colts, as I've been writing and talking about for months, are going in a very different direction.

Here is what Manning told Indy Star columnist Bob Kravitz about the environment around team headquarters these days: "I'm not in a very good place for healing, let's say that. It's not a real good environment down there right now, to say the least. Everybody's walking around on eggshells. I don't recognize our building right now. There's such complete and total change.""