CLEVELAND — The Browns have been bad, really bad, before. They’ve been inept, overmatched, impossible to watch, horribly, painfully, downright atrocious.

Until now, they’d never been 0-10.

“I never could have dreamt this — ever,” first-year coach Hue Jackson said Friday, hours after Cleveland remained winless in 2016 with a nationally televised 28-7 loss at Baltimore . “It’s been tough.”

It might get tougher.

Trying to win with a roster gutted by a front office eyeing next year’s draft and the future has been harder than Jackson imagined. He’s doing all he can with the NFL’s youngest team, which could soon join the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only 0-16 squads in league history.

The losing is testing Jackson. He’s proud and determined, but the losses are taking a toll.

“I am having to coach myself up,” he said. “This is different, but at the same time, I get it. I am in it. It is at my feet. I am not going to run from that. I do understand what the issues are and where we are and where we are going to go, but also, it has been tough. I have a good staff who stands behind me. I have an owner who has been unflinching. I have executives in the front office and they get it.

“Are we disappointed for where we are? Yeah, but I think we also understand what we have to do in order to get this changed.”

The Browns have dropped 13 straight since last season and will finish 2016 with their 14th double-digit loss season in 18 years.

In a rebounding city that’s home to the reigning NBA champion Cavaliers and the AL pennant-winning Indians, who just went to Game 7 of the World Series, the Browns are a civic shame.

Even their dedicated fans are bailing on a franchise that can’t seem to get anything right. FirstEnergy Stadium was overrun by Dallas fans last week. It won’t be any different when Pittsburgh’s Terrible Towel-waving backers make the short drive from Western Pennsylvania on Nov. 20.

While owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam aren’t happy, Jackson said they recognize there would be pain in growth.

“We all understand where we are, and it is disappointing,” Jackson said on a conference call. “None of us want to be in this situation, and especially for our fans, we do not want that for them and our players, but this is where we are. This is our reality, so we have to fight our way out of it. All I can say to our fans is: hang with us. I have never been through this this way and it is new and different, I don’t like it and we have to do something about it.

“I am very confident that we will.”