Three months ago, Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson saw the digit as a personal shot, a disrespectful prediction of awful proportions. A scarlet digit of historic futility that only one other NFL franchise has produced in a 16-game season. As in, zero wins this season, an 0-16 stretch that would mean the Browns would have gone from Dec. 14, 2015, until at least the 2017 preseason without a win.
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