Andrew Walker emerged as the reliable target in the Blues' six-point win over Adelaide on Saturday night while Jarrad Waite kicked two and pulled down seven marks.
Eddie Betts was better than he had been in recent weeks.
The 26-year-old said with the forward pressure improving, players like Lachie Henderson and Setanta O'hAilpin building momentum in the VFL and Matthew Kreuzer to return about mid-season, the side's attack was assembling nicely.
"We had a few different options and we made a focus of getting guys to give different leads, and Walker was super tonight while Waitey's always great up there to provide a contest," he told afl.com.au after the game.
"[Walker's] a great target, he can mark, he can crumb and he's got probably the best engine at the club as well, so he's very hard to match up on.
"We've got a couple of guys that are underdone in the twos with Setanta and Lachie, and those guys will just get more game time and they'll get fitter and better.
"As you get those guys playing good football in the twos, it puts pressure on the guys in the ones to play well, so it's a work in progress but we've got a lot of different guys who can step up and kick four or five goals so that makes us pretty dangerous."
Kreuzer remains around a month away from resuming after last year's knee reconstruction, and his teammates can't wait for him to get through his initial VFL games and push back into the senior side.
"There's no rush on him coming back and it's just important for him to get his leg right but when he comes back he's going to be crucial," Simpson said.
"He can play forward, he can ruck, he can play as a midfielder and he's going to complete the puzzle."
The Blues and Crows were locked on an even score in red time of Saturday night's game and looked like possibly recording the league's fourth draw for the season - and the Blues' second in a row.
Simpson, whose out-of-bounds kick at the 31-minute mark of last weekend's final term against Essendon resulted in the score-levelling point to David Zaharakis, said another draw would have been disastrous for the players' mentality.
"You don't really have time to think about those sorts of things but if it happened, it would have been a nightmare, but we were lucky enough to hang on," he said.
"A win's a win and it was a great result but we made it hard for ourselves, we fell behind and it was a great effort to get back up."
Simpson's teammates got around him after last Saturday's costly error, and he said he had moved on after his initial pain.
"I was pretty shattered and disappointed in myself but the good thing about footy, you only have to wait a week to have another crack at it," he said.
"It was just good to get over the line this week and now last week's forgotten about."
