Eade is not as critical of his team's form as some, but is aware that the Dogs need to re-discover their rhythm in the last three games of the home-and-away season, starting with the Lions clash at the Gabba on Saturday night.
"We want to enter the finals with some good form and some good momentum," Eade said shortly before flying out from Melbourne Airport on Friday.
"In the last four weeks we've played some good footy in every game, but we've just let ourselves down with a quarter here or a quarter there. We want that consistency and that's what we're looking for [against Brisbane].
"There's a few players who have been down on the high standards that they set and I suppose everyone judges players against the standards that they set and not against other players. I think there has probably been a little bit of a drop across the board, but I think it's more of a team thing about consistency.
"We've just had lapses in concentration where earlier in the year we played four quarters of consistent footy and that's the thing we're looking for."
The coach expected more of a one-on-one contest from the Lions this week after they employed a choking zone defence in Launceston last weekend in an effort to stifle the Hawks.
"I think they sort of played a bit to the opposition last week," he said.
"I think at home they'll probably take the game on, they've obviously got a very talented forward line and they've got a very good midfield so I think that was just one out of the box last week for the opponents they played."
Eade's side enjoys a healthy five-game winning streak against the Lions, including the last three encounters at the Gabba, and he said his players would make the trip with a spring in their step despite speculation that an increased training load was taking its toll.
"I think that's been overplayed a bit," he said.
"We certainly did that a few weeks ago but we haven't done that for a couple of weeks, so I don't think it's a big issue. We're certainly not making a big issue of it, but I think some other people are."
The Bulldogs welcome back lead ruckman Ben Hudson after he missed last week's loss to the Kangaroos with a back injury. Eade said he was a key inclusion to combat the influence of Lions big man Jamie Charman.
"He was close last week; he had the needles in his back early in the week and had another x-ray, but he was just still a bit tight on the Sunday," he said.
"He started to do the warm-up and it started to get a bit tight and we didn't think it was worth the risk. Certainly against a quality player like Charman it's good to get him back."
