Jack O'Connor was delighted with the attitude of his Kerry players as they swatted Tyrone aside to book their place in the All-Ireland SFC semi-finals.
But the Kingdom manager warned a step up in performance will be required if they are to reach back-to-back finals.
The reigning All-Ireland champions produced a dominant second-half display against 2021 winners Tyrone at Croke Park, outscoring them by 2-09 to 0-06 en route to a double-scores victory.
Diarmuid O’Connor and Sean O’Shea both netted in the space of eight minutes as Kerry took control, but their manager wasn’t completely satisfied.
"There’s never a complete performance," O’Connor told RTÉ Sport. "There’s always room for improvement.
"I thought we left a few scores after us out there but I'm delighted with the attitude of the boys. They were very determined leaving the hotel this morning, that they were going to put in a big performance, and they did that.
"Tyrone have very fast, dangerous forwards and we needed to clog the spaces. Tadhg Morley did a tremendous job giving us cover around the 'D’.
"There were a lot of people concerned about Sean’s form earlier in the year but we’ve great faith in him. Once he got a bit of rest – and he’s off school at the moment, he’s able to get his energy levels up to where they need to be – there was never a fear for Seanie.
"I'm delighted for Diarmuid as well. He's just coming of age around the middle of the field. We've had high hopes for him for a good few years."
O’Connor admitted the extra week’s break handed Kerry an advantage and his counterpart Brian Dooher lamented the fact Tyrone were unable to reproduce last weekend’s performance against Donegal.
"It was a bit of a Jeckyl-and-Hyde performance," the Tyrone joint-manager told RTÉ Sport. "We had a lot of energy and intensity [against Donegal] but we brought none of that here today. You have to give Kerry credit, they never let us play, but we were just a bit flat."
Tyrone drew level courtesy of first-half purple patches but Kerry hit three points in as many minutes late on to lead 0-09 to 0-06 at the interval.
"We weren't in a great place but we definitely weren’t in a bad place," said Dooher. "It wasn’t unredeemable. It's just disappointing in the second half. We needed a few scores to settle ourselves but never got that platform to build.
"We had a few unforced turnovers, sloppy play on occasions that gave Kerry a bit of momentum. And they went up and punished us with two or three scores. We can never get that back.
"At half-time the gap was bigger than we wanted, but we still thought we could come out for the second half and go again. We never really got that platform to build on."
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