Tomás Ó Sé joked that Tyrone were suffering from long Covid after their All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final defeat to Kerry.
The Kingdom cruised to victory against the 2021 All-Ireland champions in a game that was the first Championship meeting between the sides since their semi-final meeting two years ago.
That last four clash was pushed back a week due to a Covid outbreak in the Tyrone squad, with the Red Hands winning the rearranged match before going on to lift the Sam Maguire.
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But former Kerry star Ó Sé couldn't resist jokingly asking if Tyrone's performance on Saturday was affected by the outbreak two years ago.
He said on RTE's The Sunday Game: "I'll be trying to beat [Kerry] down now and put a cap on it. They were excellent.
"I think coming into it we were expecting a close battle. Tyrone came into it and looking down there early on they were in everybody's face, we thought this was going to be a cracker.
"The first half was close enough, but this was Kerry's best defensive performance in a long, long time...
"They absolutely bullied Tyrone off the field in that second half, they just couldn't live with them in any passage of the game. From a Kerry point of view, it was that work rate, the tenacity, off the ball stuff. The Jason Foleys and Diarmuid O'Connors, they seem to be timing it perfect.
"I think Tyrone will be disgusted. I'd say it was long covid they got! There has to be some explanation for it."
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