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Is Matthew Stafford ready to lead Detroit? Will the revamped defense be enough to prevent another winless season? Hear from Alex Marvez on his top five things to know about the Lions.

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" This is Alex smart as on -- foxsports.com. Training camp tour mullet style. Today stopped takes me and my pony -- to Detroit. Where the Lions are trying to rebound from the worst season in NFL history here are five things the Lions must do to avoid another 060 debacle. The first. Settle upon a quarterback. New alliance coach Jim Schwartz is having open competition between Daunte Culpepper and Matthew Stafford for the starting spot. -- openly says that Stafford is the team's quarterback of the future. The big question though is -- that future begins Schwartz says -- only -- Stafford when he is ready and if he's the team's best quarterback. Now it's up to the number one overall pick in this year's draft the 42 Million Dollar Baby to prove he's up for the challenge. Otherwise Culpepper will open the season under center the second major concern would be spent no exaggeration here. This was one of the worst -- NFL history -- 2008. The lives were old. The Lions were slow and the Lions were out of sorts from the get go Schwartz and -- your general manager Martin Mayhew had tried to change that. To a slew a veteran offseason acquisitions. Players like linebacker Julian Peterson and Larry -- as well as quarterbacking at cornerback Anthony Henry are welcome additions. But the Lions couldn't fix everything in just one offseason. Badly toward third training camp question. Who will emerge to help shore a shaky defensive line. Grady Jackson was signed as a free agent this offseason but the big name is coming off knee surgery and -- and be facing a four game steroids suspension. As part of the start start -- scandal. Free agent Kevin Carter and John -- have already turned out feelers to sign with Detroit that -- Andre well -- shocked RB. Or inherent in rookie -- competing to form a solid rotation. The rookies the more things must happen for the Lions this season is an immediate impact from some of the other members of the 2009 draft. Second round pick Louis Delmas will start at one of the safety spot third rounder Dion Andre Levy in the future starter at linebacker. And first round pick Brandon Pettigrew should blossom into a threat at tight and the one that Detroit has sorely lacked for a long time. Finally and perhaps the most important thing the ball. Schwartz have to break the cycle of losing that it's crushed this franchise for a decade. To that -- Detroit -- has turned over more than 50% of its 2008 roster that number had jumped to more than 60%. By the time training campus group. -- hopes that new players. Better coaching and more discipline would help Detroit do something had -- accomplished through December 23. 2007. That would negate the -- foxsports.com."

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