It comes despite a 17-point loss to top-four side Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium on Sunday that sees the Roos languishing in 10th, six points out of the top eight.
"What I spoke to the players about after the game is that we've now got a really great opportunity to take," Scott said following the match. "We've got the bye next week to rejuvenate and refresh and work on some things that we need to work on. Then we've got three games we're going to make an absolute assault on."
Whether the Roos can sneak into the eight even by winning all three remaining matches remains to be seen given the considerable ground they need to make up on eighth-placed Essendon.
With fixtures against Fremantle, St Kilda and Richmond to come, the Kangaroos are well-placed to pick up the maximum 12 points available - and Scott certainly won't settle for anything less.
"We are sick of this near enough is good enough and admirable fighting efforts, but I think we're showing we're not completely out of our weight division as well," he said. "We play sides we'll expect to beat and if we do that, hold up our end of the bargain, the result, whichever way it falls, will be probably where we deserve to finish at the end of the year."
Famed for their 'Shinboner Spirit', the Kangaroos certainly won't lie down, but Scott wants the focus to go from his side being considered brave to ruthless.
"Anyone who's associated with North Melbourne has an unbelievable responsibility to uphold the tradition and culture and fight that is synonymous with this football club," he said. "But it's getting tiresome. I'm sure people will say it's another fighting effort, a never-say-die effort. Well, we're sick of that. We want to start grinding sides into the ground ourselves."
The Roos bounced back into the contest during a frenetic final term despite seeming dead and buried with 15 minutes to play.
Matt Campbell's five-goal effort, including four in the last quarter, put North in front with five minutes to play and the small forward's effort certainly didn't go unnoticed by his coach.
"We just changed up our structure a little bit and we always thought that when he's in the forward 50 he's so dangerous and makes the opposition a little bit jumpy," Scott said. "It was a fantastic individual performance from him but we started to move the ball how we wanted to move it all game so that certainly helped.
"He's a really elusive, really dangerous player. [He is] not unlike Cyril Rioli because he can do things others can't."
