BEREA, Ohio — There’s one loss Browns coach Hue Jackson doesn’t have to fear this season: his job.

Despite a 0-10 start and the prospect of going winless in his first year with Cleveland, Jackson has the support of owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam, who believe they hired the right coach to turn around their floundering franchise.

“We are not focused on 0-16,” said Sashi Brown, the team’s vice president of football operations. “Hue is going to be here as our head coach. We talked about continuity being one of the core premises of what we wanted accomplished going out in January. We know that we have a head coach that can be successful here and lead us to a lot of victories and a lot of winning.”

That appears to be a long way off for the young Browns, whose progress this season has been muted by the worst start in team history and some key injuries.

To his credit, Jackson has kept the Browns playing hard and he feigned some surprise when he was told that Brown had acknowledged he will be back for a second season.

“I never thought I was going anywhere,” he said with a smile. “I know that’s been part of the plan since Day 1, before I took the job. I felt very comfortable. I know there has been a lot of mudslinging going around, but I get it. That’s part of it when you have the record that we do, I expect things to be said. But we are comfortable and we know exactly what we’re trying to do.

“I think it’s a tremendous plan. We all support it. It’s not where we want it to be, but we do have a plan in place that we feel very strongly that we’re going to get things headed in the right direction as soon as we can.”