Eade said sides typically came out strong the week after a heavy loss, as the Dogs did following their 123-point loss to West Coast in round nine when they challenged Hawthorn with renewed effort the following week.
"I think every team does. We've been beaten by 100 points earlier in the year and we've been beaten easily in the past and you make a stand the next week," he said.
"Every team in that situation does, and I think it was a bit of an aberration for [the Kangaroos] because their performances have been pretty good, and even their losses have been very close.
"We're expecting a pretty tough game."
Richmond was the latest to come out firing after a big defeat following the Tigers' round 15 103-point hammering at the hands of Carlton.
Last weekend, they contested until the last quarter before they fell away and lost to Essendon by 39 points.
Eade said while the response of teams coming out of significant defeats was generally different for each club, it all came back to the players' drive to make up for their previous performance.
"I think there's a bit of pride in it as well," he said.
"Players obviously feel embarrassed about it, and we were earlier in the year so there's no doubt they want to atone for that.
"That's not their real form so they become a bit mentally tougher during that week so they can make a stand."
Daniel Giansiracusa said all the Dogs' games were significant now given the mid-season slump that saw them lose seven out of eight games.
He also said it was important carry on their recent winning momentum, strengthened by Sunday's 27-point win over top-four aspirant Carlton.
"We're fully aware that North Melbourne is going to come out really hard with what happened last week to them, as we did against Hawthorn [the week after the West Coast loss]," he said.
"In terms of our training, it was quite intense and I'm sure [the Kangaroos] would have been going through that this week.
"So we've got to make sure we match them throughout the whole game and hopefully keep that momentum going."
Eade said changes to the Dogs' personnel and the input of its young players had influenced the turnaround in form, and the forward pressure from the likes of Luke Dahlhaus and Andrew Hooper had been important.
"We've modified a couple of things but once you start hitting targets … I think once we got a win under our belt things started to turn around a bit," he said.
"[Dahlhaus] has been doing [regular pressure acts] for four or five weeks now. 'Hoops' has been good for a couple of weeks.
"Jarrad Grant was good last week with that as well, which added a bit of speed.
"At the start of the year, we were quite slow on the forward line and now we've got a bit of pace on the forward line and that helps with the defensive acts.
"Luke has been a real positive for us."
Eade said he wasn't surprised the side was on the verge of breaking back into the eight given the focus it had shown over the past month.
"As I mentioned previously, we've got some tough games. We know we've dug ourselves a hole and we know it's really going to be week by week," he said.
"We just need to worry about the team we're going to play each week and we've got another good opponent this week so that's our main focus."
Eade said there was likely to be no change to the side this week. Ryan Hargrave will play VFL next weekend while Barry Hall is fine to play after he completed a shortened training session on Thursday.
"He's okay. His ankle gets a bit sore after most games but he's pulled up pretty well most weeks, and he did 45 minutes today, which was pleasing," he said.
"I don't think it's going to be 100 per cent but at the same token, he's moved pretty well and I think he adds a target to us.
"When we played Melbourne, he was fairly selfless and played a different role, and that will be week by week but I think just having his experience helps us."
