Seahawks general manager John Schneider met with some of the local beat writers who cover the team at the NFL Annual Meetings in Phoenix Tuesday, discussing the Seattle's offseason moves that have taken place since the new league year began earlier this month. Here are seven things we learned from his interview with Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times, Curtis Crabtree of Sports Radio KJR and Sheil Kapadia of ESPN.com:

1. The Seahawks hope Eddie Lacy helps with "getting back to establishing that power run game."

When preparing for the 2013 draft, the Seahawks did their homework on Alabama running back Eddie Lacy, but he ended up going to Green Bay one pick before the Seahawks made their first selection of that draft. Four years later, the Seahawks landed Lacy, and in doing so they hope he can help them regain a physical element of their running game that wasn't always there last season.

"Obviously we studied him very hard at the University of Alabama," Schneider said. "Big back, power guy, really, really good balance for a guy his size, and we stayed tracking him and had an opportunity to acquire him on a one-year deal. We'll try to help him out as much as we can with our sport science staff and everything and see where he can take it. But it's kind of getting back to establishing that power run game that you guys are used to seeing."

2. The Seahawks are excited about landing safety Bradley McDougald.

Even though the Seahawks have a pair of Pro Bowlers starting at safety, when they saw a chance to sign Bradley McDougald, who was previously a starting safety in Tampa Bay, they felt like they couldn't pass on that chance to add another talented player to their secondary. Schneider even went as far as to compare it to the signing of Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril in the 2013 offseason, moves that are widely regarded as two of the best free-agency additions the Seahawks have made under Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll.

"He was just too good of a player for us," Schneider said of McDougald. "It was very similar to when we ran into Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril several years ago, it was just a player who we had rated very highly as an unrestricted guy. We loved what he did last year with 90-some tackles and the guy was still out there (in free agency). It's one of those deals where, again, we have a good relationship with his agent, they reached out to us, his market didn't exactly go exactly where he wanted, so that's where we were able to kind of work out a one-year deal with him and see where it goes."

How exactly McDougald fits into the secondary remains to be seen, but Schneider indicated he very well could have a role in the defense beyond just serving as a backup to Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor.