Cavanagh claims Tyrone are conscious of producing something different if they are to go one better than last year.
The losing All-Ireland finalists in 2018 reverted to type in Newbridge on Saturday in beating Kildare to leave themselves one more victory away from a Super 8s return.
Mickey Harte insisted after the 10-point defeat of the Lilywhites that the Red Hands hadn't reverted to type.
But a similar gameplan was torn apart by Dublin in the All-Ireland final and Cavanagh knows that other top teams could do similar if given the opportunity.
"We’re not going to abandon what we have done over the last number of years," said Kavanagh.
"We've done a lot of work on it over the last number of years.
"But at the same time, we haven’t got to where we wanted to be either. We got to an All-Ireland semi-final, we lost. We got to an All-Ireland final, we lost.
"There’s no guaranteed route back to that, so we may have to adapt that type of play.
"But we know we may have to do something different because every time we have come up against Dublin, they've turned us over - and other teams will be able to turn us over.
"So we have to have more than just that one style."
But Harte believes Tyrone have the game to compete with the best, insisting he doesn't agree with critics who say they must evolve their game still further.
"I don't believe it's true," he commented.
"That's something some of the people in your business keep talking about. I don't necessarily agree with that.
"You have to adapt and you have to play to what's before you.
"You've got to know your opposition and you got to know how you can best achieve what you want against the opposition that's in front of you.
"So there's a lot of time, effort and energy put into analysing games nowadays and analysing the opposition.
"There is no single script for this game, but there's a basic gameplan that people can adapt and then be flexible with it.
"That's the name of the game. Flexibility, adaptability is being able to change when change is needed."
The main positives for Tyrone were the performances of their forwards, with Cathal McShane, Mattie Donnelly, Darren McCurry and Peter McShane standing out.
They always looked in control but Harte downplayed the victory afterwards.
Harte remarked: “They always say that one swallow doesn't make a summer and we have had bad days at the office before, and we have had days where we have done well.
"The day we go out and get everything right, I don't know, there'll be two moons in the sky
"We're just one game away from the last eight and that is very important. If we can produce a performance like that again we will take some beating.
"After we played Donegal we were supposed to be very poor and after today people will probably look at us and say we are very good.
"I've always maintained that we are never as good as we appear to be at times and never as bad as we appear at others. We are somewhere in between.
"The closer we can go to the very good side the harder we will be to beat, and that's our challenge.”
Tyrone scored 2-17 alone from play and midfielder Cavanagh confessed that a big reaction was needed after the tame Ulster semi-final exit at the hands of Donegal.
"We had to look at ourselves, we didn’t play well as a unit or individually," he acknowledged. "We lost a lot of individual battles, that was clear and evident.
"As a team, we just didn’t perform, we know that. So we looked at what we did that day and we had to change it.
"There was nothing good about that day for us, and we know that when we came into the qualifiers, we had to get it right from early on.
"So yes, we did look at ourselves after Donegal, and we said, look, that wasn’t us.
"That was one of them games that you’re going to have, so hopefully that was the blip that we’ve had this time, and we can go on ahead from it".
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