Peter Diana, Post-Gazette Steelers linebacker Joey Porter talks to members of the media yesterday at the Marriott in Pontiac, Mich. Click photo for larger image. Related multimedia Video: Porter has words for the Seahawks Video: Paul Zeise on Porter's war of words

PONTIAC, Mich. -- Joey Porter has his motor running high in the Motor City. Yesterday morning, he ground through the Seattle Seahawks for the second consecutive day and predicted a Steelers victory in the Super Bowl.

"You know how it was said to be 'Oh, Seattle and the Steelers, and everybody is just so nice?' That's not really how everybody's feeling in their heart," Porter fumed as the Steelers went through their final team media interviews at their hotel here. "They don't like us over there because we're fighting for the same trophy and only one of us can have it. We don't have to hold no more punches back about being nice to each other. We're coming down here fighting for the same thing."

Porter also made a prediction about the Super Bowl, although he would not call it a guarantee: "I think we will go out there and beat them."

Porter, the Steelers Pro Bowl outside linebacker, was in rare form, picking up where he left off Wednesday after he learned Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens promised the Seahawks would spoil the Detroit homecoming of Jerome Bettis.

"I don't think he should even be talking about a guy of Jerome's status," Porter said. "This is a guy who hasn't done nothing yet."

Porter again called Stevens "soft."

"If they ever leave him in to pass block, he's definitely a liability. If they want him to play to my side, him being the tight end, to block me, he's a liability. If they do anything using him to make a play coming to my side, it's not going to work, I'll tell you that right now. If they run the ball with him trying to block me, it's not going to happen. If they leave him in to pass block against me, I'm going to hit their quarterback. Those are the facts."

Porter, whose 10¹/₂ sacks led the Steelers and all NFL linebackers in 2005, said the goal is to knock all of the Seahawks out of the game -- not to injure them, but to make them quit.

"We're going to go out there and play football our style. It's going to be very physical. We're going to try to tap out as many people as we can; put it like that. We're going to try to send as many people to the sideline as we can. That's all you need to know. Every chance we get a chance to tap somebody out, that's what we're going out there to do."

Asked to explain "tap out," Porter said, "Tap out, make them quit, send them to the sidelines. You never seen the word 'tap out' before? 'Take me out of the game.' You see somebody tap on their helmet, they don't want it anymore. We're going to try to make every one of them tap out if we can."

Porter's eruption drew mostly words of support from other Steelers.

"Joey's one of those guys you know he's going to come to play on Sunday," fullback Dan Kreider said. "He's going to back his words up. If that's going to motivate him to play even harder, more power to him, I guess."

Even coach Bill Cowher sounded bemused by him.

"It's just Joey being Joey," Cowher said. "I was pretty proud he lasted this long. He's an emotional leader for our football team."

The more Porter talked yesterday, the more emotional he became and the more he seemed to relish letting it out.

"It's good. It's good," Porter said. "It makes everything how it's supposed to be. You're not supposed to go into a game like this and act like you like the other team, anyway."