ALLEN PARK, Mich. – So here are some of the options when Matthew Stafford, who's merely thrown for 90 touchdowns and nearly 15,000 yards over the last three seasons, takes a snap here at Detroit Lions training camp.

He can look to his best guy, or anyone's best guy, in Calvin Johnson, a 6-foot-5 target that caught 12 TDs in just 14 games last year, which was great, unless you compare to the 16 he hauled in 2011.

He can skip that and go to his newest guy, a true No. 2 receiver in the freakishly strong Golden Tate, who snagged 64 passes for Seattle last year. "He catches everything," Stafford marveled later. Every pass that way, draws attention away from Megatron.

"When Golden starts doing what he does," Johnson told reporters earlier this week, "they can't double both of us."

View photos QB Matthew Stafford has good options to pick from when moving the Lions downfield. (AP) More

They also can't cover everyone underneath, which is why Stafford can always target one of his oversized tight ends, 6-5 Brandon Pettigrew, who caught 83 passes a couple years back, or 6-4 Eric Ebron, a gifted athlete and first-round draft pick out of North Carolina.

Then again, he can just hand it off or look to open space for the rejuvenated Reggie Bush, who delivered 1,006 yards rushing and 506 more receiving as he caught 54 balls. Of course, there's always Joique Bell, a bulldozer of a back who came on late in the season as the go-to guy, especially near the goal line.

On a calm, sunny afternoon here in training camp, Stafford did all of those things, reinforcing a single, obvious, undeniable truth about these Lions: they are loaded on offense. Completely loaded, at least with skill position players.

"We definitely pass the eye test," Bush said.

"We have a ton of talent," Stafford agreed.

"It's a shame there is only one football," Bush noted. "There are a lot of weapons out here and it's going to be exciting."

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Exciting, yes, it should be. It also needs to be more, as in productive, victorious or, most important, playoff-bound.

View photos Reggie Bush cracked the 1,000-yard mark rushing last season. (AP) More

Forget Detroit finishing 7-9. Forget all the fourth-quarter collapses that cost it the NFC North. Forget the fumbles and bad penalties. Forget the half-century Super Bowl drought. Forget the zero playoff wins since Barry Sanders. Forget that the team is breaking in its new head coach, Jim Caldwell, and two rookie coordinators.

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