TAMPA, Fla. — Sunday’s news that Steelers receivers coach Darryl Drake had died at age 62 hit especially hard with a Bucs coaching staff that knew him well from five years on Bruce Arians’ staff in Arizona.



Just 36 hours earlier, they had enjoyed a reunion on the field before the Bucs’ preseason opener with the Steelers on Friday night, catching up before the game.



“I’m so thankful. I was able to spend time with him, got a picture with him,” said Kevin Garver, the Bucs’ receivers coach and an offensive assistant under Drake in Arizona from 2013-17. “Right now, after practice, I just told them after practice: ‘If there’s people in your life that are important to you, tell them you love them.’ You don’t know when that time’s going to come. Tomorrow’s not guaranteed. I’m glad the last thing he said to me was ‘Kev, I love you, brother.’ That was our last...