After meeting with the media for the first time in nearly two months at the NFL Scouting Combine, general manager Ryan Pace and head coach Matt Nagy have put 2019 behind with the page fully turned t0 2020. As Pace heads into his sixth offseason with the Bears, he knows things need to be different this offseason to get the Bears back to relevance. Then there's Nagy, who's in his third year with the Bears and has yet to establish an identity for what he wants his team to look like.

If Tuesday revealed anything, both Pace and Nagy seem like they'll be taking a different approach in 2020. While no significant roster turnover is expected, competition appears to be something that the Bears will look to create all across the board this offseason.

"It's creating competition everywhere," Pace said. "That's creating competition at quarterback and throughout our entire roster. That could be at corner, safety, and outside linebacker and quarterback, and that's all things we're looking at. We'll see. We're sorting through it. There's a lot of different avenues to improve our team whether it's free agency or the draft, and that includes that position. We'll see going forward."

The biggest question that Pace and Nagy will have to answer this offseason is who's going to come in and compete with Mitchell Trubisky. Now entering his fourth season, Trubisky regressed massively in 2019, essentially to the point where many are unsure if he should even be starting in 2020. Yet despite bringing in Bill Lazor and John DeFilippo this offseason as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, it appears as if Nagy will still be in charge of Trubisky's development.

“I don’t think so because Matt is still the guy orchestrating the offense," Pace said. "So we’ve added some new coaches there but as far as the blueprint of the offense, that’s still going through coach Nagy.”

There will be some new faces starting for the Bears next year, most of the roster remains intact. For a team that clearly didn't live up to expectations in 2019, players will need to have a mindset in 2020 that includes them being confident in themselves. Besides just bringing in competition this offseason, the goal will also be to push players who were with the team in 2019, mainly core players like Leonard Floyd.

"Yeah, I want everybody to feel that way," Nagy said. "If you don't, you feel content and you play content you don't have that chip. I think everybody on our team, and I had a lot of different individual talks with players and I'm not going to get into who they are or where they are at but there are some guys and they know who they are that can play with a chip on their shoulder. And that's the part to me that going into this year, I want to see if they have that chip."

Over the next five weeks, we'll gain some more clarity for how Pace and Nagy plan to create additional competition this offseason.

Whatever the Bears do in free agency could have an impact on what they do in the 2020 NFL Draft but it appears as if the main positions where competition will be created includes quarterback, tight end, edge rusher, cornerback, wide receiver, and right guard. There are starters in place for four of the positions listed above but there are specific players that need to be pushed so they can prove that they belong.

"So I want whatever it is, now it's hard because when you're in this process now of who they are and that sort of thing, to answer that," Nagy said. "If you're not creating competition around your whole roster, you're not pushing your own guys."