--Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said he was a little miffed when the team distributed playbooks during the one-day lifting of the lockout.

Never mind that Hasselbeck is unsigned. He told 710 ESPN Radio in Seattle, "I didn't get one. It definitely hurt my feelings, but it's alright because all my teammates gave me theirs. So it worked out. It worked out fine."

It remains to be seen whether talks for a new contract will work out fine.

--Defensive tackle Brandon Mebane wonders what his future is with the team.

Mebane has four accrued seasons, which would make him restricted free agent if the league eventually plays the 2011 season under last season's rules. He was tendered by the team before the lockout, but at the lowest level.

"I feel like I wasn't in their plans," he told the Tacoma News Tribune. "And I feel like I have that right to think that because I got a third-round tender. If they really wanted me, they had plenty of time to do what they had to do. Me personally, from my experience, I don't think I was in their plans. I would love to come back here, but I don't know what their plans are."

--Many draft projections had the Seahawks selecting a quarterback with their first-round pick, the 25th choice in the round.

But the Seahawks didn't take a quarterback there, and didn't select one in the entire draft,

Coach Pete Carroll explained the team's reasoning while speaking to a regional convention of Associated Press sports editors.

Said Carroll, referring to where the team is at this time, "We didn't think we could afford to yet."

In noting that their first two picks were tackle James Carpenter in the first round and guard John Moffitt in the third, Carroll said, "You saw us go after a couple guys that were offensive linemen, which is an area that -- without that -- the quarterback can't play."

Previously, Carroll said, "We're happy with Charlie (Whitehurst), and hoping he's going to flourish and blossom and all of that. He's a guy in my mind I'm not feeling like we missed out on a quarterback opportunity because Charlie's growing with us.

"He's just getting started to me," Carroll went on. "I don't care how long he's been around; he's only been able to start a couple times. So he's just a young guy proving himself, and he's going to show us in time where he fits."

Schneider said that the team is prepared to move forward and fill the need for more depth at quarterback through free agency or trade, which includes the possibility of bringing back Matt Hasselbeck.

"We had a plan going in, and we still have our plan," Schneider said. "We just can't execute that plan right now."

--The Los Angeles Daily News reported that Carroll has spoken to quarterback Matt Leinart about the possibility of Leinart signing with the team.

Leinart played for Carroll at Southern Cal and ended the 2010 season with the Houston Texans. He ended up with the Texans after being released by the Arizona Cardinals.

--The Seahawks only made one trade during the draft, but it helped the team land seven players in the final three rounds of the draft.

Seattle was scheduled to pick at No. 57 overall in the second round, but the Seahawks traded back with Detroit, giving up the second-round pick, along with a fifth rounder (157th overall) and a seventh rounder, in exchange for a third-round pick at No. 75, a fourth rounder (107), a fifth (154) and a seventh-round pick (205).

Put simply, Seattle traded a second-round pick for Detroit's third and fourth-round picks, and swapped spots to move up in the fifth and seventh-rounds.

So the Seahawks had seven picks in the final three rounds of the draft, including the second and 10th pick of the opening round of the final day of the draft.

"We take a lot of pride and we spend a lot of time working on the fifth round through the free agents," Schneider said. "That's really where the core of your team can come from. It's pretty exciting to talk about the first rounders - there's so much emphasis on that, and that's great, and they are very important picks. But the teams that are most successful consistently in this league do a great job in the bottom half of drafts."

--Schneider admitted the fact that because Seattle only drafted one defensive lineman, it created a bit more urgency to bring defensive tackle Brandon Mebane back, or finding more depth through trade of free agency.

The team placed a third-round tender on the Cal product, and he could be a restricted or unrestricted free agent depending on what happens in the league's labor dispute.

"We'd like to have Brandon back anyway," Schneider said. "So, it probably does to a certain extent. I'd be lying if I told you any different. But again, we're not a team that's going to panic. We're going to kind of plod through it, and see what we can accomplish."

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