Ireland will focus entirely on beating Italy but Jack Conan admits that the tantilising prospect of Ireland winning a Guinness Six Nations title in Dublin bubbles beneath the surface.
Having earned 10 points from opening wins against Wales and France, Ireland face a trip to Italy, where they have lost just once in the championship, in 2013.
Scotland, also two from two after beating England and Wales, await in round four and are never easy opponents but barring two losses in their next two games, Andy Farrell's team, ranked number one in the world, will be in the mix for some class of silverware by the time England come calling the day after St Patrick’s Day.
Ireland’s last two Grand Slams were picked up on the road, in Cardiff in 2009 and in London in 2018.
"I think it's quite far beneath the surface," the 30-year-old told RTÉ Sport.
"It is obviously exciting. [It is] such an exciting time to be in this organisation but our minds aren't in Dublin in four weeks time.
"We've got to go to Rome next against a vastly improved Italian team who in parts of the games really put it up to France and England.
"There are no easy games at this stage at this level so yeah, look, there are potentially exciting things down the line but we have to go to Rome next week and that's going to be a massive challenge for the 23 who get to go out there.
"We don't look too far ahead of ourselves."
Captain Johnny Sexton said in the aftermath of the 32-19 win over France last weekend that the team is intent on improving on last year's achievement, which came in the form of a triple crown.
That obviously means a title but the team is now in such a place, internally they will feel there’s a Grand Slam there for the taking.
Circumspect on the talk of clean sweeps, Conan, who won his 35th cap on Saturday, didn’t pause for a second when asked how much is left in the team.
"Plenty, more than people would think," he said.
"There's so much that we get wrong at times, we're looking at clips today and we've butchered tries that are simple, easy tries to score with just an extra pass, better communication, better body shape, better body language, things like that.
"There's always more to be better at. We break it down to the smallest moments of our lifts and lineouts, the way we run our attacking game, our defensive pressure we put on teams, our rucking decisions, our attacking ruck, our defensive ruck, everything like that.
"It's a constant work in progress. Even the small meeting we had this morning in units, we let them off the hook massively at times last weekend and I'm sure they're sitting in their camp going, 'Yeah, we could have scored here or there'.
"But we're always trying to push standards here and never rest on what we've done, we know we want to be better against Italy and we were good against Wales for 30, 40 minutes.
"It was a more complete performance against France on the weekend but there is such a scope to improve, which is incredibly exciting because we're the number one team in the world and we're looking around and aren't happy with what we've produced at times.
"So I think any organisation that is that self-critical and wanting more from themselves is an organisation that is going to go places, so exciting times."
Conan came on for Peter O’Mahony in the 57th minute after the Munster skipper had emptied himself on the field. Ireland have now beaten New Zealand away twice, world champions South Africa and world number two France in the space of seven months.
"It’s definitely up there," said the Wicklow man when asked where the victory ranked.
"It was an unbelievable performance from the lads from minute one to minute 80.
"It’s always hard to compare games where you’ve won silverware compared to a game when we’re on that journey to it.
"At the moment, we’re still on that path. It was definitely up there with one of the best performances I’ve been a part of.
"It was a fantastic week in camp with the lads. We’ve brought together so many good men, the environment here is really special and please God there are more of those days to come.
"It’s both, it’s extremely competitive, I know Johnny said the other week that you wouldn’t know the starting XV when you’re looking at training.
"That couldn’t be more true. The standard of everyone in the environment is so high and it’s pushing people on and pushing the standards.
"In saying that, everyone’s there to help each other and I think that’s why the performances have been so good for the past two weeks.
"It’s an incredibly enjoyable place to be. The coaches have facilitated this environment where lads can come in, be themselves, add value to the culture of the organisation. We’re really privileged and blessed to be part of such a special time for Irish rugby."
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