The Ireland players will talk it down but, in a similar fashion to last season, the Grand Slam hype train has left the station.
France away was, on paper, the most difficult assignment, and the 2023 Grand Slam winners checked that box with a 38-17 bonus-point win against a 14-man Les Bleus outfit on Friday night.
"If France had 16 players, I still don’t think they would have won," was former Ireland hooker Jerry Flannery’s assessment.
Home games against Italy (Sunday 3pm) and Wales (24 February) are next up before a trip to Twickenham to face World Cup bronze medallists England (9 March).
The campaign comes to a close at home to Scotland the day before St Patrick’s Day.
With the standards the team have set themselves under Andy Farrell, they’ll have their eyes on the prize – a first ever back-to-back Grand Slam in the Guinness Six Nations era.
"We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, there's still four big games left so we'll take it step by step," said Leinster flanker Josh van der Flier after the game.
"I know we always say that but it is still the nature of it, we can't get ahead of ourselves. But it's a brilliant start, so we have to be very happy with that."
France had not been a happy hunting ground for Ireland in the Six Nations, winning just three times prior to Friday night.
Ireland’s ability to counter-punch was crucial.
They scored three of their five tries three, five and eight minutes after French scores, never allowing Fabien Galthie's charges to build up a head of steam.
"It's definitely in a good place," added the 2022 World Rugby player of the year when asked about the squad’s mentality.
"One thing I thought was that the work of Gary Keegan as psychologist and the way the coaches kind of...as I mentioned with the [hostile] atmosphere, it's something that we talked about.
"Some lads obviously wouldn't have experienced playing France away, it's always a very tough game to play.
"We talked about France having those good patches in the game where the crowd would be going crazy and you wouldn't be able to hear anything, and they're on top a little bit.
"You're kind of prepared for those things and then the leadership of Pete [O’Mahony], I thought he was brilliant.
"There was times when they scored that the crowd was going crazy and it was getting to be a pretty close game and he was just...there wasn't even a raised voice, he was just calm, just telling us to get back into it and he had given us clear messages.
"I think that was there from a leadership point of view and then, having spoken about it and it's something that we work on, it's in a good place."
"But it's one of those things, you have to keep continually working on it. If you don't address it one week, that's when things can go against you a bit.
"But it's definitely been a strength of ours, I think, over the last couple of years and we'll keep working on it."
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