Hird insisted the defeats had taken up little of the Bombers' planning, apart from analysing how the Demons had exposed them and then trying to rectify those areas.
The Essendon coach was reluctant to comment on Melbourne's roundly criticised performance against Port Adelaide last Sunday, preferring instead to concentrate on his own charges.
"We've had losses like that in the last 12 months, so you just have to change a few things. It's pretty easy to build off a loss and get something out of it," he said at Windy Hill on Friday morning.
When it was suggested that the Bombers have a golden opportunity to go 2-0 after such a tumultuous pre-season, Hird said: "I learnt in this game not to talk about wins and losses before we play the game."
Asked whether he was expecting a completely different Melbourne side to the one that capitulated to the Power five days ago, Hird said: "Well they'll have the same jumpers on, I imagine. Who knows? I'm not sure what they’re doing in terms of the way they’re going about this week. We're worried about the Essendon Football Club and how we want to play."
Hird didn’t believe his team would suffer any emotional letdown after the huge physical and mental effort it took to knock off the Adelaide Crows at AAMI Stadium in round one.
"I think the emotion around that game has been obviously played out a lot, but the style of football and way we played was the most pleasing thing for me," he said.
"We're about playing the same way week after week and if we do that we'll be successful."
The Bombers' cause has been helped by having the rare opportunity to name an unchanged line-up – a situation Hird relishes.
"I can’t remember coaching a team that's unchanged, so it's pleasant," he said. "At the moment we've got some headaches around selection because we have got a full list of 44 players who are able to play and some very good players who are missing out."
Hird said star midfielder David Zaharakis would play a full game against the Demons after wearing the substitute's vest against the Crows.
Managing player workloads has been a challenge for the Bombers, who have played just one game in the past month.
"I'm not sure it's a good thing or a bad thing," Hird said. "I do know guys are fresh, they’re excited, we've got a very good team out there and they should play well tomorrow.
"We've just trained a lot harder than what we normally would have. It'll be 15 days since our last game (and) we've had two really big sessions in that period and a couple of other smaller ones."
Saturday night's match will also mark 20 years since the debut of Essendon defender Dustin Fletcher.
Hird described the 366-gamer as "a freak of nature", "still a great footballer", and said he hoped Fletcher would play on next year and break the 400-game milestone.
