What percolates to the surface is that no one is the hero and no one is to blame. Talk to the Irish wings and back line and they emphasise the confederacy of the front eight. Speak to a pack member and they turn you on to their team's outside pace and guile. No one person takes the rap for Scotland and the Irish collective routed Wales.
Shane Horgan will admit that the game against Scotland was a bad one for him. Of all the players, the criticism of him was the most sulphurous. It was exacerbated by the fact that Horgan considers himself a centre. He plays as a centre and thinks like a centre.
Given his chance as a centre against Scotland, he handed it back to coach Warren Gatland. Given another on the wing against Wales and he took it. But Horgan isn't complaining.
Over the last three weeks the Leinster and Lansdowne player, it could be said, has had mixed emotions about his place in the Irish team. Scotland has been purged from the system, the Welsh rout now clings like a patina. Once again, even against mighty England, there are possibilities.
"Things just didn't go right for me in Scotland," he says. "Afterwards I really tried not to expose myself to a lot of the criticism because you know yourself when you've had a bad game.
"After the match I knew how bad things were and I didn't read the papers on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday. I went to coaches and exposed myself to their criticism, asked them things, watched the video and saw what I did wrong and what I did right.
"I'm happier in the centre but I don't suppose you would have guessed it against Scotland. I'm definitely a centre and I've played all my rugby with Leinster and Lansdowne in the centre. But it was extra disappointing because I had my chance and I wanted to do well in my natural position."
The Welsh match was a demonstration of faith by management. With Geordan Murphy injured, Horgan was the natural choice to move onto the right wing. Strong, a good finisher and in motion a difficult runner to take down, he rewarded Gatland with a try and could have had two. "Luckily, I got to fall over the line at the end. That's all I had to do for that one," he says in self-deprecation.
"We let ourselves down against Scotland but against Wales our pack was amazing. They completely turned it around, our runners worked very well and there was good linking play."
The pack will be asked to do the same again and even with the full volume of Lansdowne Road behind the team the energy levels and intensity are expected to be several notches higher.
"I see England as strong favourites. They're the next team in the world after Australia," says Warren Gatland pushing up the bar even higher.
For Horgan it doesn't personally get any easier. England's Billy Whizz, left wing Jason Robinson represents a markedly different challenge.
The rugby league player who converted to union barely a year ago, having apparently lost ambition because he had won every accolade available, may still be a greenhorn but he was good enough for the Lions and England coach Clive Woodward.
Woodward watched Robinson play for Sale Sharks and fast-tracked him into the English squad. That was in February. Graham Henry then threw him to the Lions and he emerged with an enhanced union reputation.
"A new guy to union? Well he hasn't done so badly so far has he?" says Horgan. "He's a world-class performer and proved with the Lions what he can do it at any level. Obviously England has a whole team of players who are dangerous and it is foolish to focus in on just one.
"He is not a threat if he does not have his hands on the ball and that is where the whole team has a job to do," he says.
"Sure if they get the ball wide they will be threatening. You don't want him running at you. You want to close down his space and try to limit his undoubted potential and ability.
"But you don't want to get bogged down or try to over-analyse a guy with that much talent. We know what he's capable of doing."
Now Ireland do, too. And Horgan as a right wing will look to his strengths, with Wales, not Scotland, firmly in mind.
