Stellar teammate.

So what was Tom Brady like on a Super Bowl-winning team? A guy who shared a locker room with Brady might now.

Despite what fans saw on TV with Brady’s famous intensity or his high standards in practice, where Joe witnessed Brady drop kick a ball onto a separate practice field because of an incompletion, you’d think Brady would be up guys’ rear ends constantly.

That wasn’t the case said one Brady teammate on the Bucs Super Bowl champs for the 2020 season.

Retired Bucs legend Lavonte David has been on a media tour in the days in the past two weeks and stopped to visit “Bussin’ With the Boys,” the podcast co-hosted by David’s former Nebraska teammate Will Compton, a former Titans linebacker, and former Titans Pro Bowl left tackle Taylor Lewan.

Compton wanted to know how often Brady gave locker room speeches. David said only once — the Super Bowl.

It was at that point David said he knew he was about to play in a landmark Bucs game, as if he didn’t already know.

“Somebody else was about to talk,” David said of Brady’s speech just a handful of minutes before kickoff. “[Brady] moved him and just started talking. And everybody was like [David’s face went blank], ‘Oh, sh!t. Tom’s about to start talking. This is real.'”

Per David, Brady said, “‘This moment, right here, you will be remembered forever. … Ten years from now we will come back together and celebrate this moment. Your family will remember it forever.'”

David said Brady’s words were profound at the time because David knew how the football world had ignored him despite his above-the-rim play for what previously was a garbage, inconsequential team for years.

“People will know who I am,” David said to himself, thinking about if the Bucs won. “That’s what I was thinking about.”

When Brady was finished, David said there was “no doubt” the Bucs would win. Brady pushed the perfect button at the perfect time.

David described Brady as an elite teammate.

“From a guy with his status, with his superstar status, you’d think what comes with that, looking at it from the outside looking in, you [might think], ‘This guy’s an a-hole, a prima donna who is an egotistical guy,’ David said. “But he was the complete opposite, bro. He’s a guy’s guy. A great dude. “

Brady would actually sit with teammates and try to get to know them, David said, all the way down to the No. 53 man on the roster.

As for being a leader, David said Brady didn’t have to talk.

The way the team saw how Brady practiced at such a high level — he only wanted to practice against the first-team defense, David said — those actions spoke louder than words.