Roscommon manager Kevin McStay admitted that his side couldn’t live with Tyrone’s athleticism and conditioning.
The beaten Connacht finalists suffered a devastating 4-24 to 2-12 defeat to Tyrone at Croke Park in the first game of the Super 8s.
"We made a couple of massive turnovers that we were punished for," McStay told RTÉ Sport.
"Then the gap that we were hoping Tyrone wouldn’t get, that we were planning not to give them, all of a sudden they had it and they are so hard to play against once that gap opens up but fair play to them, their athleticism, their conditioning, it’s way ahead of ours and we couldn’t live with it."
In the opening twenty minutes the sides were well matched, but Tyrone upped their game put Roscommon under pressure.
They had eight different scores in the first-half with three points coming from defenders Michael McKernan, Ronan McNamee and Tiarnan McCann.
"We came up here with great hope, we really felt that we were going to put it up to them. We got a decent start. It was 'Steady Eddie' for the first quarter.
"You are trying to keep the margin manageable and all the runners are coming from the defence all the time and we started were getting tired and not tracking.
"Tyrone are expert at padding out the lead and in the end it looks like a lot. Thankfully, we have a week to recover and there is a match in seven days time so we won’t be mulling around the place we have to get back on the horse show a bit of pride next week and have a cut."
Kevin McStay's side will welcome Donegal to Dr Hyde Park next weekend. The are currently bottom of Group 2 after one game.
"There isn’t a whole lot of positives out of our performance, the team knows that, we all know that we’ve had too many of these trimmings in Croke Park the last few years.
"We play for pride next week an d we have to turn it around and I have every expectation that we will."
