Philadelphia Eagles: Why Michael Vick's Team Was Never a Dream Team

The Philadelphia Eagles, no doubt, would like to file all of this under the "wish it would have never happened" category.

You know what's next, you know what's coming—those two dreaded, awful words:

Dream Team.

Michael Vick's doing the best he can to put an end to the madness.

It was madness born from the "dream" backup quarterback, Vince Young, who the Eagles brought in to learn from the "dream" quarterback, Vick. Good start for the dream, $100 million starter and a former hot-shot No. 1 draft pick as a backup. It's the stuff dreams are made of. 

The Eagles then totally over-drank from the moonshine jug of free agency and signed the "dream" corner, Nnamdi, whose last name happens to be Asomugha.

The only guy running around who would pay that much for a corner is Donald Trump and the corner would have to be smack dab in Manhattan.

Asomugha was supposed to be a shutdown corner but he's turned out to be more of a smacked-down corner after four games and he simply falls right in line with the rest of the broken "dream."

"The dream thing is now over," Vick says as if he's splashing cold water in the face of a snoozing Andy Reid. And to make it more emphatic, the Eagles didn't wait for one of the local type-and-gripers to pen the declaration; they put it all in black and white on the team website—Eaglesareoneandthree.com.

Vick also channeled his inner-Obama and came up with this one:

"I sense change."

Have to give Mike credit; he has his finger on the pulse of this team:

"Nobody's happy about this," said No. 7.

There's no joy in Mudville, either. But who's to say the Eagles can't pluck success from this failed "dream"?

"Now we just have to forget about everything that's happened and take it one game at a time," Vick said in the dream-ending appeal.

What a novel idea. Take the NFL season one game at a time.

Has anyone ever heard that before? Oh come on, don't be shy, raise your hands!

If there is one claim the Eagles can make thus far in 2011, it is that they are probably the most talented 1-3 team in the NFL.

So they have that going for them, which is nice.

The Eagles also have something else working in their favor. It's called the NFC East. Granted, it's not the pansy patch that the NFC West is, but it is an unsettled division with no clear-cut favorite after four weeks unless you're Redskins running back Tim Hightower and you're making your Super Bowl reservations after Week 4.

Now that Barack Vick senses change, and these Eagles are going to take games one at a time, it all starts over on Sunday in Buffalo.

You have a 3-1 team vs. a 1-3 team and it's time for Vick and Company to put it all together and get a win so the Eagles can change their website to: Eaglesaretwoandthree.com.

It's the start of what may be the defining stretch of this season for the Eagles.

After Buffalo, they play at Washington, get a bye then host Dallas and Chicago.

If there's a turnaround coming, then these Eagles need to go 3-1 at worst over that second quarter of the season.

That's a tall task.

You might even call it a "dream."