ALLEN PARK >> Dan Campbell spent his first 11 years in the NFL as a player, splitting time with the Giants, Cowboys, Lions and Saints. The next 11 came as an assistant, with him spending six seasons in Miami and five under Sean Payton in New Orleans.

Now in his fourth year as head coach in Detroit, Campbell has more than a quarter century’s worth of experience that makes him confident in saying this: The Lions, starting with principal owner Sheila Hamp and trickling all the way down to the players, are deploying the right strategy to have sustained success.

“It’s a huge factor,” Campbell said Wednesday when asked how much Hamp’s leadership helps the team. “In my opinion, without having the right ownership, it’s hard to get to a point where you can have success and sustain it. I think it’s very hard. We have the right ownership. Sheila is outstanding, man. She gives us everything we need, she is very supportive and she speaks her mind with me, and I appreciate that.

“Our guys have ownership of this team, they have buy-in, they know it’s their team. We try to honor that, we do. Our team speaks volumes. Our core has got something. I listen, we listen, because that’s the way it should be. For the most part, the core, the herd, I think it’s you fall in line or it doesn’t work out. We’ve got a good group.”

Collaboration has been a core tenant of Detroit’s approach since Hamp, along with team president Rod Wood and executive Chris Spielman, hired Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes in January 2021.

The Lions are 36-27-1 under the Campbell-Holmes regime, including a 32-8 record over the last 40 games.

Campbell has done his best to empower assistants — linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard speaks weekly in front of defense as Campbell and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn try to groom him to one day become a DC, as an example — and that’s led to those same assistants empowering their players.

That includes offensive coordinator Ben Johnson meeting with Jared Goff for an hour every day throughout the week to discuss the game plan. If Goff thinks a certain route will be open against a specific coverage, Johnson will build an alert into the offense that allows Goff to get to it if he likes what he sees at the line of scrimmage.

“He’ll kind of spitball, ‘Hey, I’m thinking this, that or the other. These are the things that I’ve done that I really like.’ We’ll find a way to incorporate those,” Johnson said Thursday. “The things that he’s most comfortable with usually work on game day, so we want to give him a lot of liberty early in the week.”

Johnson valuing Goff’s input has helped the quarterback so far post one of the most efficient seasons of his career; Goff ranks second in passer rating (109.1), fifth in passing touchdowns (25) and eighth in passing yards (3,265). Removing his five-interception performance against the Texans in Week 11, Goff has only thrown five picks in his 12 other games this season.

Goff is also second in completion percentage (72.4%), behind only Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa (73.8%). In the four games so far following Houston, Goff has completed 73.6% of his passes for 1,185 yards, nine touchdowns and one interception.

You better believe some, if not most, of that production has come by virtue of the teamwork between Goff and Johnson.

“That’s one of the biggest things here that makes it so fun to play here and to be a part of this winning culture we have, is that they listen to us and they are collaborative,” Goff said.