Are these All Blacks the best that have ever been? Are they really that good? And has it all become a bit boring? Steve Hepburn rolls out the accolades for the men in black while Jeff Cheshire says yes, the All Blacks are good, but other forces are coming into play.
The All Blacks are taking this 15-man game to a whole new level. It is like they are doing quantum physics and finding the path to nuclear fusion while the rest of the international sides are still trying to work out how to turn the bunsen burner on.
The men in black are a clear No1 in the world at the moment and the side led by Kieran Read is getting right up there in terms of great All Black sides.
There is no weakness in the side. None at all. It can attack with deadly precision and defend with great heart, head and accuracy.
It has skilled and talented players all over the park and even when one cries off sick or goes down injured, the next guy off the rank is just as effective.
Hookers can throw miss passes and explode into gaps. Lineout forwards can hit rucks and blow away some hefty props.
Then in halfback Aaron Smith they have the man who can put it all together. His long passes give the space to first five-eighth Beauden Barrett.
Barrett is playing at a new level this season. Traditionally, men in the No10 jersey were either runners or kickers. It was Grant Fox or Frano Botica, rarely a combination of the two.
Dan Carter sort of could but as injuries took their toll, he slowed down and was a kick-option-first player.
Barrett is quickly catching up with Carter and is the most exciting player on the planet. He can run as quick as a winger and kick like an Aussie Rules player.
Possibly the midfield could be seen as a weak link but Malakai Fekitoa is a strong defender and Ryan Crotty is maturing nicely.
Then there are the back three. A combination of power, poise and pace.
If the side is not yet worthy to be in the same room as the Invincibles, the All Black teams of the late Fred Allen or the 1987 World Cup winners, then it is knocking loudly on the door.
And it is not boring. How can winning in such a breathtaking and exciting manner be boring?
Just think back to the dark days of 2009 when we could not buy a trick off the Springboks. Or 1998 when the All Blacks lost five tests in a row under John Hart.
Winning and winning in such style is about setting higher and higher standards. The others just have to catch up.
Good luck with that.
But wait a moment . . .
Make no mistake, this is a good All Black team. But let's not get carried away.
Is this team really so much better than anyone that has been before, or is the quality of opposition not what it once was?
Australian rugby is in a mess, South Africa is embroiled in politics and Argentina is still a few years away from being a top-class 80-minute team.
The drums have been beating for England of late, but those drums never seem to stop and they rarely deliver. France is not the team it once was and the rest of the European big names are hardly going through vintage periods.
None of them offer genuine attacking threats and, consequently, the All Black defence has rarely had questions asked of it. On attack, they are finding space because opponents who spend too much time in the gym run out of puff and cannot keep up.
You can only play what is in front of you and these All Blacks have done just that. But the large scores might be deceiving.
How would they go against a team capable of getting on the front foot, creating space and forcing them to scramble on defence? Or against one that got itself fit enough to defend for more than 60 minutes?
Other All Black teams have been similarly dominant in tougher eras. The team of the late-1980s was quite unstoppable and while the modern-era team has the odd slip-up, that team was ruthless through its dominant period.
The mid-1990s edition was also outstanding, winning its series against the Springboks in South Africa for the first time ever, then going unbeaten the next year. Or that of the 1960s, near unbeatable for a decade.
All were golden eras in New Zealand rugby that saw stiff competition from around the globe. Even in the 1990s, the World Cup cycle had not become ingrained to the point that you were playing an opponent three years away from being top-class.
Unfortunately, that is what is happening now. Other countries do not have the depth of talent New Zealand has so they pick a team they hope will develop into a World Cup-winning outfit.
There is only so much you can take out of a 40-point win over a team like that.
This is a great All Black team, no doubt. But the greatest? That might be a bit of a stretch, for now.
-Additionally written by Jeff Cheshire