Adelaide coach Don Pyke isn't buying the wounded Tigers bit.
Pyke's Crows on Saturday meet Richmond, who have endured a week under the AFL blowtorch after last week's late capitulation to Collingwood.
But Pyke says Richmond's mindset should be largely irrelevant to his Crows players.
"They (Richmond) are a really good, strong footy team," Pyke told reporters on Wednesday.
"On the weekend they probably had the game won with a couple of minutes to go and unfortunately for them they let it slip.
"But they played some good, strong footy as they did the first week against Carlton. So they're a really impressive side."
Pyke warned his players they would need to be flexible in changing game styles against Richmond in the Etihad Stadium encounter.
Adelaide's two games this season have been freewheeling affairs - the Crows are the league's second-highest scorers - but Pyke doesn't expect that to be an ongoing trend.
"For us, we want to focus on how we want to play, obviously aware of how Richmond will play," he said.
"And we have got to be flexible enough and adapt.
"If we can move the ball with speed and get some of the movement we had last week, that's great.
"If that is not available, we have got to find a different way.
"That is what we have been training and that will be one of the challenges come Saturday."
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