Matt Nagy’s head coaching career began with a phenomenal season in 2018, one in which he led the Chicago Bears to 12 wins and the NFC North crown. As he and the rest of the coaching staff prepare to kick off Year 2, it’s critical that the roster continues to believe in his message.

“What we’ve done is build this foundation,” Nagy said Wednesday from the NFL combine. “That was our goal in Year 1—let’s build a foundation. And I don’t know what our record’s going to be, but let’s get everybody in this building—at Halas Hall back in Chicago—to believe and trust what we’re talking about. It’s easy to talk about it, but you have to back it up.”

It didn’t take long for the roster to buy in. Nor did it take long for the fans and the city to buy in, too. But Nagy faces an entirely new challenge in 2019.

“Now that I feel like we’ve got that full trust from the players and the people within the building, now we’ve got to maintain it,” he said.

Nagy’s excited about the challenge of keeping the Bears from getting complacent.

“It’s my job, my responsibility to make sure it doesn’t happen. I look forward to that. I think that’s one of the fun parts in my position is being able to be creative and find ways of how do you do it. You’ve got to be motivational, but yet you can’t be monotonous with it. Now [the players] know me and I know them, for the most part, so they’re going to understand it.”