While Colm O'Rourke believes football is all but unwatchable unless the Dubs are involved, Joe Brolly saw enough in Tyrone's last two matches of 2018 to think the game has turned a corner.
The Sunday Game panel were discussing the Championship as a whole after watching Dublin make it four All-Irelands on the trot with a 2-17 to 1-14 win over Tyrone.
Pat Spillane has called for a change of mindset in the approach of coaches at all levels and, surprisingly, Brolly identified Mickey Harte as a potential leader of the revolution.
Brolly has not always been the Tyrone manager's biggest fan but he took hope from Tyrone's willingness to abandon their double sweeper and have a cut off Monaghan in the semi-final, before a similar approach fell short against the dominant Dubs.
"Dublin thrill us all and the way they play the game continues to inspire us. It has been a source of amazement to me that rather than copy the Dublin template, coaches copy the Jim McGuinness template, but it is coming to end. Tyrone abandoning it for semi-final has signalled death knell for it," said the 1993 All-Ireland winner.
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"If anything comes out of this game today it has to be that Tyrone are applauded for playing with courage, they just haven't been doing it along enough," he added.
"We have had an aberration for four years and hopefully now it becomes a nightmare that we forget about within a year or two."
Meathman O'Rourke, a manager at club level with Simonstown Gaels until this January, is less optimistic.
"I think [football] has suffered badly in comparison with the hurling, but the hurling has been just fantastic. What we are seeing in Gaelic football now is that the game is unwatchable unless Dublin are involved and this has been reflected in the trend of people going to games for the first time ever and I think the television audiences are suffering as well.
"There needs to be root and branch reform of the football championship."
