Summer has arrived and the marquee men up front are coming to the fore.
For months, we've been bemoaning the amount of cagey and claustrophobic games, with lateral and safety-first approaches predominating. Systems stifling flair.
But in the past month, as the ground hardens, we've seen star power and individual forward quality reassert itself.
Look at some recent games. Take the Ulster final, where Shane McGuigan won the game for Derry, chipping in with 0-07, four from play.
Despite Kerry's defeat, David Clifford was absolutely sensational on Saturday, clipping over 0-08, again the majority from play.
Then you've Aidan O'Shea - I know he wears 13 but he's playing as an out-and-out full-forward. Another Man of the Match award last weekend.
Even Shane Walsh, who wasn't at his vintage best, if you take the first 10 minutes against Tyrone, he got four shots away, two of which were beautiful points from play.
We're seeing teams go more direct in the benign conditions and the leading men in attack are no longer being starved of possession. As a result, we're seeing them flourish and put up big scores.
Of course, Mayo's embrace of a more direct attacking approach was facilitated by the hosts in Killarney.
We were wondering last week what Mayo would arrive in Fitzgerald Stadium following their lengthy hiatus. We got our answer, at any rate.
More surprising was the Kerry team that showed up. They didn't appear to be clued in on what Mayo would bring.
I think they were over-confident. They came in without having been challenged in Munster. On the evidence of the game, they didn't seem to have their homework done. Which is a shocking thing to say about a Kerry team managed by Jack O'Connor.
In a strange way, Kerry were the ideal opponents for Mayo given the week that was in it - odd to say about playing the All-Ireland champions in Killarney, where they hadn't been beaten in nearly three decades.
But Kerry's approach played precisely into Mayo's hands. They were almost naive. In total, they coughed up about five or six decent goal chances. Last year, they conceded four goals in 13 matches, across league and championship.
It was especially surprising given that it's not exactly a secret that Mayo struggle when the games become slow and monotonous, when they come up against counter-attacking teams who play with a massed defence, as we saw in the Connacht championship loss.
It's clear that Mayo used the six-week layoff really well, looking at both their skills and energy levels.
O'Shea was again hugely influential in what is becoming one of his best seasons in recent years. Mayo are renowned for their energetic running game, attacking from deep. But at the weekend - as they had been during the league - they mixed it up, using O'Shea as a focal point at full-forward.
He's a terrific outlet up there. Even if he didn't win possession, he was still drawing two or three defenders towards him, allowing space for Ryan O'Donoghue and James Carr either side of him to hoover up possession and clip over points. They had 0-10 between them in the first half, which tells a story.
Kerry's forwards in the main struggled. Seanie O'Shea had one of his quietest games, Paudie Clifford drifted in and out. Tony Brosnan, whose form had been impressive, was snuffed out.
Only for a Clifford masterclass, the margin could have been double-digits. He was relatively subdued in the first half, but he came out in the second half with a bit of venom and anger in him. When he's in that mood, he's just in a different stratosphere to every forward in the game. It doesn't matter how good you are as a defender, there's no stopping him. Kerry have to pray he doesn't pick up any sort of injury because they're looking reliant on him.
They've wound up making it hard for themselves, given that they're likely going to have to navigate a preliminary quarter-final, and then a quarter-final against one of the top seeds - Dublin, Galway or Derry possibly.
I don't think we learned a whole pile from the game in Salthill.
It's a pity as it was winding up to be an entertaining showdown, until Frank Burns' crazy moment of ill-discipline. It was bananas for a guy of that experience, an All-Ireland winner, who's been around the track many a time.
That killed the game, in truth. For Tyrone, it was damage limitation from there and on that level, they fared well. But there was no sense they were going to win the game after that.
Galway did what they had to do. While Tyrone whittled it down to one or two points on occasion in the second half, Galway were able to keep in front and found the scores that bit easier as the game wore on.
They're sitting pretty now and will have little trouble against Westmeath in the next game. The game in Omagh, on the other end, is a match-up of massive importance. Armagh need a big championship scalp. But Tyrone badly need to arrest this tide of championship defeats, that's four in a row since they mowed down Fermanagh last summer.
Before all that, we've the second set of Round 1 fixtures coming up, the most interesting at HQ this weekend. Dublin slipped back into their old groove in the Leinster final, though they'd been inconsistent and underwhelming before that.
They're facing a sticky and resilient opponent on Saturday. The Rossies have quality forwards, a well drilled defensive system and have been in flying form for most of 2023. Their morale isn't in question, unlike much of the field in Leinster.
Their issue in modern times is that they've been merely a provincial menace and have never brought that same fearless brio to the All-Ireland series.
But it primarily depends on Dublin. If they get the engines revved, they'll stretch away and win well. If they get mired in that flat, sideways game that we saw against Kildare, you'd imagine Roscommon will be right there.
If pushed, I suspect it'll be the former.
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