FOXBORO — Apparently, giving Joey Porter credit for holding back a bit during his Wednesday conference call with New England reporters was premature.

Because on Thursday, with a bigger audience, on NFL Network, Porter went off when host Rich Eisen asked the Dolphins’ linebacker whether league officials have a different set of rules for Patriots’ Tom Brady than other quarterbacks and players in the league.

“No question. When a guy can tell a ref to throw a flag, and he gets it, he’s got his own rules,” Porter said. “They made the rule that you don’t go at the legs for Tom, so when he feels that someone is going at his legs, he just points to the ref and he gets a flag. So I can honestly say that he gets his own rules.”

The NFL voted this past offseason to adjust a rule and now prohibits players who are already on the ground from lunging at a quarterback if a play is still going on; since that is precisely the kind of thing Bernard Pollard did, tearing Brady’s ACL and MCL last Sept. 7, it is called the Brady rule.

Porter is not the first player to say this season that Brady calls for — and receives — fouls; Baltimore also made that claim after its loss in Foxboro last month.

And while Porter implied on Wednesday that his dislike for New England was based on SpyGate and his assertion that the Patriots cheated their way to wins over Pittsburgh in the 2001 and ’04 AFC title games when Porter was with the Steelers, on Thursday he came right out and used the “C” word.

“The hate’s been there for a while, especially after all the cheating they did back in the day. . . . They can sweep it under the rug if they want to, but just like anybody else that’s cheating that gets caught, you put an asterisk by it. But nobody puts an asterisk by those championships they won,” Porter said.

The four-time Pro Bowler also claimed that the Pats’ players and coaches disrupted the Dolphins’ pregame warm-ups when New England traveled to Miami last year, such as practicing kicks over Miami players while they were stretching, which is against NFL rules.

Sparano lauds Brady

This is Tony Sparano’s first time game-planning to face Brady, and the second-year Miami coach believes Brady is back to being the same quarterback he was before his injury.

“I see no difference at all,” Sparano told Dolphins’ media members Thursday. “I think he’s throwing it as well as ever, he’s moving around in the pocket fine. He doesn’t get hit a lot, that offensive line takes pretty good care of him. I think that that way there, I just don’t notice anything different, I really don’t. They’re doing the same things with him, he’s being asked to throw the ball a good amount of times. Nothing different, really.”

Sparano wasn’t done tossing out compliments; despite the fact that his team faced the New Orleans Saints two weeks ago — who are on pace to break the single-season scoring record the Pats set in 2007 — and the Colts in September, he believes New England is the best offense Miami has faced thus far.

“I think (the Saints and Colts) are outstanding with what they do, but this team — they spread you out pretty good and they spread you out consistently pretty good. People groups, personnel, all those things where they get people in and out, they can do it a bunch of different ways,” Sparano said. “I think those challenges are the greater challenges.”

Practice list

New England had the same six players missing from Thursday’s practice as did not participate Wednesday: Julian Edelman (forearm), Fred Taylor (ankle), Jonathan Wilhite (illness), Sammy Morris (knee), Matt Light (knee) and Jarvis Green (knee).

Ty Warren (ankle) practiced in a limited capacity after not taking part the day before; Benjamin Watson (back) was limited as well. Brady (right shoulder) and Randy Moss (shoulder) were both listed as having full participation.

For Miami, Channing Crowder (shoulder) and Jason Ferguson (elbow) were both limited for the second straight day.

Between the goalposts

Green was named one of Boston’s 25 Most Fashionable by The Boston Globe this week; in the accompanying interview, Green called his style “eclectic.” Linda Pizzuti Henry, new wife of Red Sox owner John Henry, and Yuka Okajima, wife of Sox pitcher Hideki, were the other members of the list with sports ties…Speaking of Green, his third annual Wine Tasting Gala, a fundraiser for his eponymous organization, which supports single mothers and their families, will be held Friday at 7 p.m. at the Rhode Island Convention Center. For tickets and more information, visit www.jarvisgreen.com... Stat check: despite not playing last week, the Patriots kept their standing as the third-ranked offense (14th rushing, second passing) in the league, and the sixth-ranked defense (15th rushing, fifth passing). Among AFC teams, the offense is first and the defense third.