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At 0-12, the Browns are as bad as you can be in the NFL. At 13-0, Alabama is as good as you can be in college football. So, some folks have wondered which team would win if they were to meet on the field: the winless NFL team, or the undefeated college football team?

Bleacher Report even ran a simulation ... and Alabama won.



The comparison has one member of the Browns feeling not too happy. According to cornerback Joe Haden, it's "disrespectful" to even compare the two teams.


"It's a smack in the face. It makes you very upset,'' he said, per Cleveland.com. "That's a slap in the face, it doesn't make any sense. Alabama's a great program, they've got amazing players, they've got players that are going to play in the NFL. We've got a team full of NFL guys. Comparing college team vs. NFL team is disrespectful."

So yeah, he's right. For as bad as Robert Griffin III has been in the NFL (after his rookie year), he won the Heisman Trophy at Baylor in 2011. The point being, many of the terrible players in the NFL were some of the best players in college. And so, the Browns would probably crush any college team.

Unfortunately, that won't change the fact that the Browns appear to be heading to the second 0-16 season in NFL history and the first 0-16 parade ever.

"Oh, man, this is terrible. This is terrible. You're talking about an 0-16 parade,'' Haden said. "It's very, very tough and it hits you right between the eyes because I'm on the team, there's something I can do about it and that's why I'm playing. But when you get all that talk ... The worst thing I've ever seen is us getting beat 34-0 to 'Bama. Once I've seen that, there was just nothing else to talk about.''

This might be the first time somebody's said this about the Browns this season, but ... I have some good news: They're finally healthy! All 53 members of their roster are expected to be totally fine for Sunday's game against the Bengals, which means RG3 will be back under center. So, the Browns are at least finally peaking (by their standards). And just in time, as the one-year anniversary of their last win, which came on Dec. 13, 2015, is rapidly approaching.

In all, they'll get four more chances to snag a win. Those four games will come against the Bengals, Bills, Chargers, and Steelers.

"It's tough, it's super tough,'' Haden said. "I've never been in a situation like this where we're literally the laughingstock of every joke. I can't look at any sports net or anything and they're not saying at least he's not going to the Browns, stuff like that. It's tough, it sucks and you're hearing if from everywhere. Everybody's giving it to you. There's really nothing you can do but go win.

"That's what I'm saying, there's nothing that can change this but winning, there's nothing else I can say if we go out there and lose again. Everything is all determined on winning and all determined on the scoreboard at the end of the game. Until we get that changed we're going to be the laughingstocks.''

If the Browns do lose out, I hope the Alabama talk dies in favor of a much more riveting and respectful comparison: Would the Browns beat the 2008 Lions?