As someone who criticized Parker a lot for his efforts against Manly, I think he deserves great credit for what he did on the weekend. As has been said earlier, it could easily have been a different game if he misses those kicks.
Also, as someone who has criticized Hoffman, I stand by it despite his performance. He's great at what he does, and on the weekend we won and he got to do what he does best, which is why he is rightly receiving praise from it. However, his shortcomings still exist, and I'm sure if we will lose again they'll be mentioned again. Which isn't to say he's not working hard at it, he clearly made efforts, but lets not pretend that because he got to play to his strengths that he's the world's best fullback again.