Bears coach Matt Nagy sat down to breakfast with the media at his first NFL annual meeting as head coach Tuesday and spoke about how his plans are taking shape at Halas Hall.

Nagy will take that work to the next level next week as he is allowed to meet with his new players for the first time.

Here are some of the highlights from the hour with Nagy.

On building relationships with his players

“It won't take too long, but it's not going to happen overnight. There will be relationships that are developed. We'll have a players' committee of some of the leaders that are on the team and that get voted there through their peers. Once a week I'll be with those guys and then I'll be able to bounce around and see.

“I learned from one of the best in Coach (Andy) Reid. His player-coach relationship is second to none, and in the end, the players flat out respect him because he treats them as men. They understand that, yeah, he wants what's best for them, but he holds them accountable. And I'm going to hold every one of these guys accountable as well as myself and the rest of the coaching staff.”

On the process of teaching the offense to quarterback Mitch Trubisky

“The expectations for us are that we’re going to always push him. We’re going to give a little bit more to him to see what he can handle, but you’ve got to be able to balance that with the other 10 guys and what’s too much. So you have that balance of what you can give him. That’s why you have coach (Dave) Ragone. That’s why you have Chase Daniel. That’s why you have Tyler Bray. So that those times that we’re not in that staff meeting or installing plays, he’s being fed great information from guys that know it, right?”

On what he likes about wide receiver Allen Robinson

“He’s a guy that presents a lot of problems to defensive backs just because of his ability with his size. But he’s a good route-runner. He’s able to, if you have a smaller DB on him, he can beat you up with his size. A bigger DB, he can beat you up with his route running. The guy’s got experience. He’s produced. He’s put up numbers and he’s now worked to put himself in an opportunity to be a free agent. We were a team where that was a position we wanted to strengthen, so that was who we went after.”

On the “U” tight end position in his offense and how Trey Burton fits

“As Ryan (Pace) said, our first conversation when we were on the plane heading to Chicago the day that I was hired was we discussed that ‘U’ position, the position that we know in Kansas City and we use in Kansas City as kind of the wide receiver/tight end. … It’s an important role. It’s a position that a lot of our offense, it’s easy to create some plays for.

“And when you have a guy that has the size that Trey has and the speed that he has, it’s about mismatches. So if you get a small nickel on him and they want to play nickel, he can use his size to be able to body him up. If they want to put a bigger guy on him, we can use his speed, so that’s an advantage to the offense. That’s one of the things that I learned through coach (Andy) Reid is getting mismatches throughout and that’s what Trey does.”

On developing his offense with new offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich

“Being able to sit down and talk football with him has been a lot of joy. It has been a phase for us right now where I’m able to kind of pull back a little bit and talk through some of the schemes they do in both the run and pass game. He has been coaching for a long time now, and he’s really smart on the offensive side of the ball. He has a lot of great ideas.

“So what you’re going to see is what fits best. This isn’t going to be just about what we’ve done in Kansas City, what I did in Kansas City. This is going to be a ‘we’ thing. If the play works or the scheme looks like it’s going to fit between all of our coaches, we’re going to do that.”

On his message to his players when they meet April 3

“One of the messages to start is I want the team to understand the team they’re playing for and the tradition and the history. When they step into Halas Hall, understand how fortunate they are. Number one, they’ve got to know that. A lot of guys will hear it, but they don’t know why and they don’t understand it. They’re going to understand why it’s so important for them to put on the Bears uniform.

“As we get into who we are as a team, I want them to understand there’s going to be ups and downs. It’s going to be a roller coaster. You usually don’t go 16-0 and win every game and ride off into the sunset. When bad things happen, when adversity strikes, how do you react to that? The great teams will respond in the right way. They’ll have a bunch of leaders on the team that stick together, a bunch of coaches that stick together, that get through it. And they roll.

“I’ll keep using this example: Doug (Pederson) and the Philadelphia Eagles did that this year. They had some down times. They lost some players. They fought through it. They stuck together, and then they did it and had fun.”

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