I'll say right now that I don't think Stafford will be any better than David Carr. It's the exact same setup. Stud WR, average running game, terrible offensive line, terrible defense. The only difference is Stafford didn't get sacked eight times.
Stafford will never succeed with the Lions, and by the time he gets out of Detroit, he'll be too mentally damaged to catch on anywhere else. I've been saying this since we drafted him and passed up on o-line help. Our receivers outside of Calvin aren't good enough to go get balls that might be mistake throws, our defense isn't going to hold any offense down enough to where we can get a running game going to take pressure off, and the running game, even when we do run it, is behind such a terrible offensive line that the defenses don't even worry about it.