England shipped a record defeat to France on Saturday but Andy Farrell says that fact makes Ireland's task more difficult on Saturday.
Les Bleus are the only other team who can nick the title off Ireland but they need a demoralised Red Rose team to come and do a job in Dublin.
Steve Borthwick's men conceded seven tries on the way to their biggest ever loss in Twickenham.
They made 13 handling errors and missed 27 tackles, while conceding seven penalties at the ruck over the course of a 53-10 loss. France turned them over 17 times.
On the one hand, it makes for good reading from an Irish point of view because it's a fair indication of the quality of the opposition but, on the other hand, they are unlikely be so poor next weekend.
"They will certainly be hurting and, I mean, it's a perfect opportunity to come and spoil the party," said head coach Farrell, ahead of Ireland's bid for just a fourth ever Grand Slam and the first on home soil since the 1948 clean sweep that was crowned in Belfast.
"That's the reality. So that will be a massive motivation for them.
"Is that bigger motivation than what we're gonna experience playing at home for our Grand Slam game on St Patrick's weekend? We'll see."
Asked to reflect on his native country's collapse against Fabien Galthie's 2022 champions, Farrell said: "I definitely don't [expect the same sort of performance].
"The game ran away from them at 27-3. There's probably no way back in that regard.
"You're trying to chance your arm, your gameplan is out of the window a little bit and the game just folds doesn't it.
"It just threw itself out there. Those games are one-offs and there's some great play from France etc but I think it was more shock than anything.
"France were on a high and the emotions were probably dented a bit from England but knowing the players, knowing the coaching staff, knowing everyone involved, there's no better occasion to try and turn it around then next week.
"They're a good side. We've seen that time and time again.
"They'll be a really, really tough opponent to beat next week."
Meanwhile, Ireland wing Mack Hansen jokingly played down the now-regular but still strange equation that sees Farrell's son Owen (above) on the team his father is planning to beat.
"There’ll be no moves run at Owen if he’s playing… there’ll be a lot of chat about lightly tapping him to the ground," said Hansen, who was player of the match in Ireland's victory over Scotland.
"Nah, Andy’s very good at just letting that go.
"He’s not going to slate him by any means but it’s just another game and it just happens that his son is playing for the other team. Andy will say the right words and get us pumped up no matter what.
"Owen will be broken up to bits, losing like that at Twickenham. It’s probably the worst thing that could have happened for us because they’ll turn around and they’ll be hungry to make up for it."
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