WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one: Dan Campbell is confident in his players.

The Detroit Lions head coach knows how much of an asset it was to have Ben Johnson calling plays over the last three seasons — no one has more yards gained (20,134) or points scored (1,478) since 2022 than the Lions — but Campbell isn’t ready to wave the white flag on an offense that features so much star power.

No matter who’s calling plays — Johnson, following a three-year stint as Detroit’s offensive coordinator, is now head coach of the Chicago Bears — the core pieces haven’t changed.

“This is a Detroit Lion offense, is what it is. … This offense is Jared Goff, (Amon-Ra) St. Brown, (Jahmyr) Gibbs, (David) Montgomery,” Campbell said Tuesday at the NFL’s annual league meetings. “It’s Frank (Ragnow); it’s (Penei) Sewell; it’s (Taylor) Decker. I can keep (going). It’s (Jameson Williams). … That’s what we are.”

The Lions are returning 10 of their 11 offensive starters from a season ago, with right guard Kevin Zeitler being the one exception. Zeitler, who signed a one-year deal worth $9 million to help the Tennessee Titans bolster their offensive line, spent one impressive season in Detroit.

That continuity among the personnel is huge, given Johnson’s departure. New offensive coordinator John Morton’s system won’t be a carbon copy of what Johnson has run, but the nuts and bolts of who the Lions are should remain the same. It helps, too, that Morton, 55, was an offensive assistant with the Lions in 2022, when Johnson’s scheme was being constructed.

“John is a fanatical worker,” Johnson said. “He was always the first one in the building and the last one to leave. He helped me immensely, as a first-year coordinator, really see the game. He had worked with Sean Payton; he had worked with Jon Gruden; a lot of really good coaches. He was able to really influence the direction of our passing game that way. I’ll forever be grateful for the conversations we had.”

Payton, who has hired Morton on three separate occasions and most recently employed him as Denver’s pass-game coordinator from 2023-24, added: “Remember, he was there (in Detroit) not two-and-a-half, three years ago. … The terminology and the communication, all the things that Jared knows — the system — that all stays cleanly intact. Johnny is a tremendous worker. Like, he’ll be the last one out and the first one (arriving) in the morning.”

Before choosing Morton as Johnson’s replacement, Campbell made it clear Goff’s opinion was going to be taken into account during the search for a new offensive coordinator. Much of Detroit’s offensive success can be credited to the collaboration between Goff and Johnson, and Campbell wants to see more of that between Goff and Morton.

Goff, a nine-year veteran who is coming off the best statistical season of his career, knows what he does well, and Campbell wants the offense catered to that. To Campbell, calls work to enhance the skill sets of the players running them, not the other way around.

“Everything we wanted him to do in the offense (last season), he did,” Campbell said of Goff. “And then he began to bring stuff to us, as to, ‘Hey, man, I can see this look. Let me get to this play.

“I know I’ve got these options in the bag. But let me get to this, as well.’ Right? Those are the things where (it’s like), ‘OK, here we go, man. That’s beginning to show.’

“I would anticipate that to take another step up.”

The Lions have broken the bank to retain their offensive talent — about $522 million (approximately $375 million guaranteed) has been spent on multi-season extensions for Goff, Montgomery, St. Brown, Sewell and Decker in the last calendar year — and Campbell hopes those efforts to keep the core together pay dividends in 2024, when a new voice will be speaking to Goff through the headset.

“We can say, ‘Well this is our scheme, this is what we’re running.’ No, no, no,” Campbell said. “(The players are) the ones who make it what it is.

“That’s our playbook, those guys.”