The Patriots acquired veteran tight end Alex Smith from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers today in exchange for an undisclosed selection in the 2010 NFL Draft, the team announced today.

The Eagles acquired veteran cornerback Ellis Hobbs from the Patriots on Sunday for two fifth-round draft picks. Hobbs is entering the final year of his contract and the Eagles could look to extend his deal, especially if they opt to grant Sheldon Brown's request for a trade.

The Raiders are shopping Derrick Burgess and the Eagles and Patriots could be interested, according to a report from ESPN's Chris Mortensen.

Executives from two teams tell Sports Illustrated's Peter King that New England offered its first-round pick and middle of three second-round picks (the 23rd and 47th picks overall) to Jacksonville for the eighth pick in the draft. The Jaguars reportedly declined and the Patriots might now be targeting Green Bay with the 9th overall selection.

The Patriots had a private workout with Maryland linebacker Moise Fokou and cornerback Kevin Barnes last week, according to a league source. Coach Bill Belichick was in attendance for the workout.

Patriots defensive end Ty Warren said on Thursday that he expects to be ready for the start of training camp in July after he had double groin surgery this off-season. Warren went under the knife in January to repair a torn groin muscle on his left side and also had repair work done to the groin on his right side, as well as a procedure to fix a sports hernia injury. "I'm approaching it like I'm going to be ready, and I think I will be," said Warren, who missed three games with the left groin injury last year and was able to gut out four other games, including the final three of the season, at substantially less than 100 percent.

Police in Costa Rica are investigating claims that two photographers were shot at by bodyguards at the wedding of Tom Brady and model Gisele Bundchen. Nobody was hurt in the incident, which reportedly involved bodyguards shooting at a pair of photographers that took pictures of the wedding.

The Patriots are scheduled to host West Virgina quarterback Pat White at Gillette Stadium next week. White is scheduled to meet with team officials on Monday and Tuesday. He has been scouted as both a quarterback and a receiver, and is a top prospect for teams looking to implement the Wildcat offensive set. White was a spread option quarterback in college.

Patriots receiver Wes Welker believes that quarterback Tom Brady looks like the same player that won the NFL's MVP award back in 2007. "He could never run that well anyway," Welker joked Monday.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's armed bodyguards opened fire on paparazzi at the couple's nuptials in Costa Rica, blasting out the windows of a photographer's SUV, and just missing the photographers, they said said Sunday. "Thank God I'm all right. At that moment, I thought I was going to die," lensman Rolando Aviles told The Post. "The bullet went between us, missing our heads," Aviles said. "If the bullet been a little more to the left or right, it would have killed one of us. "I said, 'They're going to kill us,' and that's when I hunched down to cover myself." "When the glass broke, that's when my friend started driving really fast." The New England Patriot quarterback's best man berated the photographers and wanted to provoke a brawl, the lensmen said. "Take a picture of me now, you f- - -er! F- - - you," Brady's righthand man, whose name was not immediately known, screamed, according to Aviles. "He was very angry. It looked like he wanted to attack us," Aviles said. The photographers lied their way out of the tight spot - saying they hadn't taken a single frame. The QB's reps said Gisele had an exclusive picture deal with a Brazilian magazine.