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Stafford: Lions tougher to defend without Johnson

The Detroit Lions are still figuring out how to replace the retired Calvin Johnson, but quarterback Matthew Stafford has a lot of confidence in what the Lions have.

How much? He thinks Detroit will be harder to defend without Johnson.

"I think we're going to do it a little bit differently than we have the in the past," Stafford said during an interview Tuesday with SiriusXM Radio. "Obviously we used to feature Calvin, and everybody kind of got theirs after that. It's going to be, I think, tougher for defenses in a certain way in that they don't know who we're going to.