Drew may not have worked out like we had hoped on the playing field, but he helped the Bills in a more important fashion when he was brought here. While I have been very critical (sometimes maybe too much) of his play, if he had not been traded here and helped us turn the corner from 3-13 in 2001 to 8-8 in 2002 we would not have been able to land the free agents we have like Takeo Spikes, Lawyer Milloy, Sam Adams, Troy Vincent, and others.
If Van Pelt had started in 2002 we would have been just as bad because of our defense and bad teams don't bring in free agents. Look at Arizona and other perenial bad teams. People don't want to sign with them because they know that they aren't going anywhere. Drew at least helped us turn the corner from horrible to average quickly so we were able to bring in some quality players on both sides of the ball.
For that I thank him.