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Lions mailbag: Red zone or dead zone? Dissecting Detroit's struggles inside the 20

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Allen Park — It's been a rough few days for Detroit Lions fans. Communications via email and Twitter have been enough to make a sailor blush, at times. Still, we were able to filter through the anger and find some good questions for this week's mailbag.

u25ba Question. Why are the Lions so bad in the red zone? — @thughey67

u25ba Answer. They'll tell you it's execution, and that's fair to an extent, but I believe we can distill the struggles down to three issues.