as levan reid reports as the pats come into this week against buffalo trying to do patriots practice and finally dion lewis was back on the field. the patriots have 21 days to activate him. the team's earlier loss to buffalo this season will have no baring on sunday. >> the bills are always ready. it is always a four quarter game. every single time we play them. >> reporter: offensively they will walk with the sustained for them, 3rd and 12 and that you would rather be 3rd and short. >> reporter: the team just needs to win their conference. >> just go out there and be the guy across it. when it comes down to the guy that they will need to beat you too. >> reporter: and of course having tom brady back will help a ton. but the x factor in this game to be legarrette blunt. as long as they are able to run the ball that it will be hard at gillette stadium i'm levan reid wbz sports. >> check out patriots all access tomorrow night 7:00 right here on wbz. then on sunday wbz has you covered from start to finish beginning with patriots game day at 11:30. kickoff at 1:00 immediately followed by

and for more on this here's levan reid. >> reporter: i think it was more than expected. every football game is an the star, well i don't have to tell you, it was tom brady. [ cheering ] >> reporter: tom brady is back, and he didn't disappoint. >> it's been a fun week to get ready play and get back to ready to play, and get back to -- to get ready to play and get back to what i love to do. >> reporter: thousands of people showed up for the return. >> i've been at rallies with millions of people, and at training camp with7, people at practice, i think we have the best fans in the world, and they showed up today, and it was great to hear them. >> reporter: 12 gave them what happen they wanted, in his first drive he led the team to a touchdown. >> i just try to go out there and do the best i can every week, and my teammates expect that out of me, and i try to give them that. i expect that out of them. >> reporter: and the ball got rolling from there. brady was supposed to be rusty, week for me once i got into it, so it was fun to come out and play, and fun to win. >> reporte

i am levan reid for wbz sports. >> good saturday morning it's 6:45 right now. let's look closer at matthew 6 this morning about 20 miles east of hilton head. south carolina and the certainly the eye wall mock onto charleston and all along the coast right now with the strongest winds we have had winds gusts of 85 to 95 miles per hour from hilton head to georgia. and the savannah had more than 11 inches and that's where it's really bad right now. very, very heavy rain and strong winds in the eye wall across most all of south carolina now moving into north carolina and the storm will take a track about like this. as it moves onshore it's going to be right on the coastline and then moving right onto southern north carolina and then starting to churn out to sea near the outer banks and then going out to sea beyond that. some of the rain may be captured from that and pulled up from an upper level system from the northwest and great lakes. so we may get somewhat heavier rain over massachusetts tomorrow afternoon. but no wind to go along with that. the storm surge will

as levan reid tells us, the story and rob gronkowski looked like big 87 last sunday against cleveland. you kind of saw his shoving get out of the way attitude. he admitted today that he is starting to feel better. >> i wasn't myself last week, i'm just getting to the groove now. every single week and weekend on out, i'm staying in a groove. >> reporter: when gronk is rolling good things happen. >> as long as we can go out and do what we have to do, execute, everyone does their job. things will go the best. >> reporter: but specifically his positive play will open opportunities for martellus bennett who took advantage of that last week with the three touchdown outing. martellus saying that this is a perfect place for him. >> i feel at home here since day one. it's a place where i feel like we belong. it's been fun, i've been enjoying it. just trying to win games with my teammates. >> the patriots offense have put a lot on the play this the tight end set and then the the long ball with chris hogan. it'll be interesting to see how they attack this talented cincinnati defense. >> all righ

levan reid is in the studio, let's hope that home cooking is the key. >> let's hope so. the red sox find david price, the $217 million contract, the playoffs as a starter and after this afternoon, 0-8. this is all you really need to see, second inning, david price on the hill, three run shot, that will put the indians up 4-0 and put the game out of reach. red sox only manage three hits, and they lose 6-0 and go down 2- 0 in the series. it would come to this, the rest of the week after all of the ceremonies for david ortiz, clay buchholz will sox season and big papi's season going. and roach in cleveland spoke to him after the game. >> reporter: let's take you inside the clubhouse for a moment. we heard from david price, jackie bradley jr., dustin pretoria, not much to say at this point. david ortiz showered, got dressed and walked by us. the pr man for the red sox strongly convinced him to talk and when he came over we got an i've got to go home now and play better. >> you seem angry. are you angry with how it's going? >> should i be happy? >> i'm asking. >> o, [ bleep ]