Following their league triumph, Mickey Harte and Offaly will relish the prospect of taking on Meath in Navan, according to three-time All-Ireland winner Enda McGinley.
Meath host Offaly in Sunday's Leinster quarter-final in Páirc Tailteann, both sides coming off the back of strong league campaigns, albeit ones which finished in a very different fashion.
Robbie Brennan's side appeared to be gunning for promotion to the top tier after four wins in their first five games, but concluded their league with heavy defeats to Monaghan and Louth. Even more alarming was the abrupt departure of coaches Joe McMahon and Martin Corey.
By contrast, Offaly finished their league in style, with a two-point win over Kildare to claim the Division 3 title, the fourth time in five years that Mickey Harte has won league silverware, and with a third different team.
While Meath are effectively certain of being in the Sam Maguire competition and Offaly are likely to be in the Tailteann Cup - given that they're on a collision course with Dublin in the semi in any case - McGinley feels that the away side have the momentum that gives them a real chance of an upset this weekend.
"I love Kildare-Westmeath because of the evenness of it," McGinley said on the RTÉ GAA podcast . "I love this one because of the contrast between the land of giants of Meath and the land of sheer energy and pace and speed that Offaly are bringing.
"I thought Offaly in their Division 3 league win, some of the quality of their play, the sheer ambition that they show in their play, (there was) almost a fearlessness there. We know that they're a young side and they're playing like that too.
"There are two things in the modern game that seem to be really, really important. One is size and you can't grow size. And the other is pace and you can't create pace either.
"Offaly have pace to burn and so they are playing their game according to that. Meath have size and they're playing their game according to that. So it's a really, really lovely contrast."
Harte, who was installed as Offaly co-manager alongside Declan Kelly in the off-season, has some history with Meath, with McGinley referencing the 2007 quarter-final loss that Tyrone suffered during an otherwise golden era - that game being best remembered for Graham Geraghty's palmed/lobbed goal.
"Obviously, I know Mickey Harte, I know that mindset. He would be rubbing his hands with this fixture.
"In saying that, Meath were the one team that had turned over Tyrone, even that team that I was a part of in the noughties, when we were at a big height.
"(For Mickey), there's been wee issues with Meath in the past. But Offaly will be fancying their chances of a famous win.
"They're on a wave of momentum and those waves can do serious damage whenever they get built. Their wave of momentum is greater than what Meath have at the minute.
"Lastly, the absence of those (Meath) coaches will still have an impact. The reasons behind the departure will still be a discussion point.
"So that is still there in that camp, whether or not they got the good win the last time."
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