Niyo: Lions know using Megatron more is worth the risk

(Photo: Daniel Mears / Detroit News)Allen Park — He’s darned if he does, and darned if he doesn’t, apparently.

And with a wry smile Wednesday, Matthew Stafford probably said it best, “I mean, I sometimes just feel darned.”

Sometimes, that’s the only explanation. And in this case, as Stafford and his coaches are being asked to explain just why Calvin Johnson seemed like an afterthought — if that — in Sunday’s season-opening loss at San Diego, it’s probably the best darned one he can give.

Same goes for Johnson, who caught one pass on the game’s opening drive, another on the game’s last, and nothing in between, as the Chargers blitzed the Lions in a second-half comeback. There were two other…