Kerry slam an exclamation mark down on the question marks

Truly, Kerry did not seem sated with their scoring sums at any point of this 2-18 to 0-12 evisceration

UPSIDE DOWN: Kerry's Sean O'Shea scores their second goal en route to a comprehensive 12-point win over Tyrone at Croke Park in Dublin.

WHEN the football summer got started for real, the All-Ireland champions dealt with the question marks with the emphatic rebuttal of an exclamation mark.

Not since the first 50 minutes of last year’s semi-final has Kerry stitched together a display of such depth and breadth, the totality of their dominance leaving their old nemesis fumbling around for their gumshields. It was that brutal. That the champions humbled Tyrone at their own game, feasting on no less than 19 turnovers, will be especially gratifying to the players. It wasn’t all down to the 2021 All-Ireland semi-final. Things are done and said in the heat of combat, but Kerry’s players were relentless to the extent that they seemed to be torching some old linen in the process.