While Dublin might celebrate their three-in-a-row, the age profile of the key players means they can look forward to extending their recent dominance for years to come.
Sunday's All Ireland final win over Mayo certainly puts them in the pantheon of the great teams and also provides a platform for the future as ex-Mayo footballer Billy Joe Padden, ex-Tyrone All Ireland winner Enda McGinley and Laois man Ross Munnelly discussed in our analysis of Dublin vs Mayo.
"No team is there really in a brilliant position to take them down. Mayo are well over the hill compared to Dublin. Most of Mayo's key players are all older. Kerry, likewise, some of their best performances this year were their oldest players. Tyrone are maybe going to have to look at their whole style of play," said McGinley on the candidates to rain on Dublin's parade in future.
"So no, the horizon is looking pretty clear from a Dublin point of view."
Dublin's Niall Scully, Cormac Costello, Brian Fenton, Con O'Callaghan, Paul Mannion, Paddy Andrews and Diarmuid Connolly celebrate ©INPHO/James Crombie
A sign of their current greatness is concentration according to Padden, highlighting how they've come through in numerous close games.
"The thing that stood out for me and it's a sign of their greatness is in six close games against Mayo, a team just slightly inferior to them, never has their concentration dropped to a situation where they've allowed Mayo to win that game," he said.
In terms of ways of rattling an imperious Dublin side, Mayo showed the way in regards to the way they approached Stephen Cluxton's kick outs as McGinley pointed out.
"Watching the first half, they were doing the dream job on the Cluxton kick out and you could see the impact of that," he said.
"If you can crack the Dublin kick out for even a period of time, the whole Dublin team's rattled whenever those kick outs are not working out."
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