I really like the fact – it’s refreshing, really — that Browns head coach Hue Jackson is a positive guy by nature.

He’s a realist, too, certainly, but he tries to approach things with a “the-glass-is-half-full” mentality.

That’s especially the case in football matters since this is his first time as a head coach at any level.

And he was at his positive best on Thursday night when he was quoted in the Browns release about the unveiling of their 2016 regular-season schedule. The first peek at the schedule is a joyous time for all teams, since it is the first installment of the major pieces that will comprise the upcoming season. No matter what the schedule is, the head coach has to spin it in an upbeat manner. You can’t give it a “Bah, humbug.” Not allowed.

Sometimes, though, that’s easier said done than done. One of those times was Thursday, and the place was upstairs in Jackson’s office at Browns Headquarters in Berea after he got a look at a schedule that has the team playing three of its first four games, and five of its first seven, on the road.

“I’m very excited because I also know that our players will be very excited about it,” Jackson stated in the release. “It’s a challenging schedule, but we knew that was going to be the case when we started this.

“Obviously, when you first look at the schedule, there are five road games in the first seven, so we’re going to be on the road and we understand this is the schedule we’ve been dealt. We’ve just got to have that mindset. We’re going to pack a good team and go on the road and play good games.”

We like to put the official brownsdailydose.com truth detector apparatus on things when we feel the need to do so. And we feel the need to do so now.

As such, then, here’s the translation of Jackson’s quotes when we turn on our very special machine, whose inspiration was the 1997 movie, “Liar Liar,” in which Jim Carrey couldn’t tell a lie for 24 hours:

“Holy smokes! When I saw that schedule, my knees started to buckle and I just about fell down. It’s good that my desk was nearby so I could steady myself and catch my balance while I tried to start breathing again. Lucky there wasn’t a ledge outside my window or else I might have gone out there and threatened to jump. Wonder if Rip or Al or Ray or Kirby or Sashi would have talked me out of it. Yeah, I’m sure they would have.

“I wanted to call up Roger Goodell and tell him, ‘Hey, Mr. Commish, why didn’t you just hit me over the head with a sledgehammer and be done with it.’

“It’s hard enough for a veteran team that’s been together for a while to play on the road in this league. We’re going to have a very young team made up of players from all over the place. They’re going to have to wear name tags so they know who each other is. Heck, they may have to wear those tags so I know who they are.

“Some of these guys have never been to Cleveland before. Two months ago, they wouldn’t have known where the city was even if they were standing in the middle of it and it was on fire. It will be hard enough to get them used to Cleveland and playing in our own stadium, but until almost the end of October, they will be there only two times. Instead, they’ll be in places like Philadelphia, Miami Washington, Nashville and Cincinnati.

“We were already going to be challenged to win. Now we’re going to be more challenged. A tough job just got tougher – a lot tougher. And I don’t even know who my quarterback is going to be.

“By the way, they know who their quarterback is in Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

“I have to go talk to Jimmy Haslam and make sure he knows what’s going on. I want him to reassure me I’ve got a little bit of time to get this thing turned around. I don’t want him to give me forever – I realize that NFL stands for “Not For Long” – but this isn’t going to happen overnight. I’m a football coach, not a wizard or a magician. I know he has fired a coach after only one year, and I don’t want him to pull the plug on me like that.

“I really like this head coaching thing. It’s VERY cool. I get paid lots of money, and I get to be the boss – at least of the coaches. I don’t want to go back to being an assistant anytime soon.

“Oh, well, I can’t do any more worrying about the schedule right now. I won’t have to deal with it for another 4½ months. I’ve got to get back to working on the draft. That’s something I’ve got a fighting chance to be successful with.

“The schedule? Uh, not so much.”