CLEVELAND — There’s a big, fat, ugly, historic zero on the horizon. Browns coach Hue Jackson will do anything he can to elude it.

“Somehow, someway, we are going to find a way not to be 0-16,” Jackson said Tuesday.

They’re more than halfway there.

At 0-9 and the NFL’s only winless team, the Browns have seven more chances to get that first win and avoid joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only teams in league history to go without a victory in a 16-game season.

After a 35-10 beating on Sunday against Dallas, the Browns have had little time to regroup before playing on Thursday night at Baltimore, where they will look to end their skid and escape becoming the first team in Cleveland’s 66-year history to go 0-10.

As the losses mount, it’s gotten tougher for Jackson to put on a brave front. The losing is tearing him up, but Jackson knew when he took the job there would be tough days ahead.

He just didn’t count on there being so many of them.

“It is about wins and losses,” he said. “We don’t want to be 0-9 right now to be very honest with you. We are going to fight our tails off, and it starts on Thursday night again.”