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Wally Buono is peering through the looking glass, and he’s afraid of what might be staring back at him.

It might just be the truth.

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A 41-19 loss will do that to a coach. The second-guessing, the 20/20 hindsight and the Sunday morning quarterbacking — because Saturday’s loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was so disquieting, it wasn’t something that would wait until Monday. There was a plane full of insomniac Lions mentally dissecting it into the early hours Sunday morning.

“Players, coaches, we all have to share in the responsibility. At the end of it, you got to look yourself in the mirror, and if this is who we are …” Buono said, pausing to exhale.

“Then that’s a tough thing,” he said quietly.

And it’s a tough place to be, questioning your team’s identity with just three games under the belt. But that’s where the Lions are. So far this season, Buono’s team squeaked by the East’s last-place team and made two .500 teams look like world-beaters.