The Bulldogs are third on the ladder behind Hawthorn and Geelong, with four wins from four starts this season.
While this standing sees the Hawks and Cats being talked up as genuine premiership contenders, little is being said about Eade's men – but he understands why that is the case.
"The jury is still out. We haven't proved anything yet," he said, on Wednesday at Whitten Oval.
"Geelong has, and Hawthorn made the finals last year and have a good young squad.
"We've got a lot of work to do and there's still a lot of improvement to do. There's still a lot of improvement in the squad, and whether people are talking about it or not talking about it, it doesn't worry us too much."
Eade admitted captain Brad Johnson has been compromised by a hip injury in recent weeks which he suffered in Round One. This had resulted in affects to his groin and while he expects the veteran forward to play on Sunday, considers his fitness to be around the "80 to 90 per cent" mark.
"He certainly won't be 100 per cent, and I think you can see that in his performance in the last couple of weeks," Eade said after Johnson was restricted to walking laps during the training session.
“It's probably surprising he's made the state squad, to be honest.
"He probably only had a good game against Adelaide; in the others, he struggled a bit. He's had a bit of a corky as well, but that's about right."
As far as the state squads for the Hall of Fame tribute match were concerned, Eade said he was a little surprised Daniel Cross, Lindsay Gilbee, and to a slightly lesser extent, Jason Akermanis and Brian Lake, were not included.
"I think it's always hard to pick state squads because there's so many good players across 16 sides and it's a tough job," he said.
"As Choco [Mark Williams] said yesterday, they're going to make changes. There will be players that pull out with injury and players added, and I think there are players from every team where there's a few that are lucky and a few unlucky.
"But Daniel Cross and Lindsay Gilbee are the two of ours that are in good form and have played well."
With AFL boss Andrew Demetriou all but ruling out the possibility of a future Tasmanian side on Tuesday, Eade, who joined the Hawks from Glenorchy, said he was disappointed the Apple Isle was not being considered.
"You'd certainly love [a Tasmanian side], considering they've been one of the founding states in over 100 years of AFL footy," he said.
"They've had some of the best players to come out of there, [Peter] Hudson, [Royce] Hart, [Ian] Stewart, [Darrel] Baldock … there's been some great names.
"I think I just hope, and you can see with the push into the Gold Coast and west Sydney that we need to in order to grow the game, but you'd hate that one of the founding and great states of football gets left behind a bit."
