If we lose that stupid Giants game we would be tied at 4-12 with 6 other teams. Based on SOS that would have given us the 7th pick going into week 18. A loss against the Bucs and wins by the Panthers, Jets, and Jags would vault us up to the 4th pick. There would have even been an unlikely possibility for the 2nd pick.
If you go back to the Atlanta game, which we had no business winning, but the Failcons are so bad they lose to the worst Saints team in nearly 20 years, we are sitting at 3-13 and the 2nd pick in the draft.
Now the best we can hope for is pick 8.