After how the 2017 Season played out, they were obviously not drafting Lamar (or ANY QB for that matter).
They kept trying to eke out at least one more Super Bowl run for Brees before he retired, so they drafted different forms of "help" in his last years, like "Mr. 2 1sts"

and Ruiz
@smitty22
Sorta like how the Giants desperately tried to do the same with Eli in the 2018 Draft by getting him a running game in the form of Saquon instead of drafting a QB and starting over
And it almost worked in 2018, if not for, you know what