Since the 2011 season, the numbers Stafford has been able to generate consistently has been rather astonishing to say the least. Never seeing a year throwing under 4200 yards topping out at a career best of just over 5000 yards, it’s clear what Matthew is able to produce. Stafford also is no stranger to finding his targets in the endzone seeing an average of 28.1 touchdowns over his last seven seasons with a career best of 41 touchdown passes in 2011. As mentioned above, the most impressive maturation of his game has been the reduction of interceptions thrown. In this new offensive system where the focus could be geared toward a shorter pass attack leveraging the talent in Theo Riddick and Ameer Abdullah, while still taking deep shots exploiting defenses forced to stay close to the line of scrimmage, Stafford should see high-end numbers once again this season. Adding to that point, the Lions have never enjoyed the fruits of a true play action pass where the opposition would take notice providing Matthew with greater looks down the field; this should come to fruition in 2018.