Victory over West Coast next week would secure a finals berth for Adelaide and All Australian hopeful Rory Laird is confident his side can do just that.
The Crows' massive 87-point win against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night was a perfectly-rounded performance: skipper Taylor Walker booted a career-best seven goals, Eddie Betts added three, Rory Sloane was brilliant, and down back the likes of Laird, Ricky Henderson and Brodie Smith provided great rebound.
The second-placed Eagles remain one of the League's most potent premiership threats and will play at Adelaide Oval next Sunday.
They'll enter the clash as warm favourites, but Laird told AFL Media that if the Crows continued their current form they could avoid a potential Round 23 play-off against Geelong and cement a place in the top eight early.
"I think we've been playing really good footy. If our defence is good, it gets going on our offence, and once that gets going I reckon we can take it up to West Coast," Laird said.
"We think we can perform under pressure very well, our training standards are good like that – they've been up really high.
"If we stick to what we're doing I think we can really take it up to West Coast and then hopefully beat Geelong as well."
Laird continued his push for a debut All Australian jumper against the Lions, collecting another 26 possessions at 92 per cent efficiency.
The 21-year-old has averaged 24 touches a game this year playing a variety of roles for coaches Scott Camporeale and Phil Walsh.
He'd be high in the running to claim the Malcolm Blight Medal as Adelaide's best and fairest, although he insisted his attention remained focused on a single objective – finals footy.
"I don't listen to any of that stuff – it's just whatever the coach wants me to do each week, if I'm tagging or if I'm playing down back or like I've been doing the last couple of weeks playing that rebounding attacking [role]," he said.
"If [All Australian] comes then it's nice, but I'm just concentrating on the team and I just want to play finals more than anything.
"I haven't played [a final] yet; I think we're all hungry for it and the way we're playing we actually have a real good chance to."