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7-2-26: Can Fluff Bothwell Lead Mississippi State's Run Game to Success?

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports News, Sports, News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Fluff Bothwell had his moments a season ago, but now he's asked to lead a young running back room and help Mississippi State control the run game. Is Bothwell up to the challenge, and how can he help Kamario Taylor be successful? Brian Hadad and Carlo Barone discuss what Fluff needs to bring to the Bulldogs this fall. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Carlo Barone, along with legendary Diamond Dawg Brooks Bryan, give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. Covering the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

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You're listening to Thunder and Lightning on Super Talk Mississippi,

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covering Mississippi State sports like nobody else.

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With Sports Talk Mississippi's Brian Heedad and Carlo Barone of WCBI sports.

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Now get ready for Thunder and Lightning.

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This is Thunder and Lightning here on Super Talk, Mississippi.

0:32.6

Brian Hade and Carlo Barone here with you on a Thursday morning.

0:35.6

Thanks for joining us here at Supertalk.fm or wherever it is that you get podcasts from. We appreciate you guys out there. Our great listeners, especially our servicemen and women out there taking care of us. I want to thank our sponsors over at Strange Brew Coffee House and Churning Spooned Ice Cream. Start your day the right way with a trip to the drive-thru over at Strange Brew Coffee House here in Starville or at Brewpolo over in Tupleo. If you're not in Starvedville or Tupleo, not a problem. Just go to Strangebrewcoffeehouse.com, get it delivered right to your door. You can enjoy Strange Brew Coffee each and every morning at strangebrewcoffeehouse.com. You're right over there? Yeah, I just didn't even have the mic adjusted. It was like all over here. Yeah, I to speak into the mic. Yeah, I got it. The Mississippi Beef Council wants to remind you that. Beef. It is what's for dinner? We're having beef at the Haydad household tonight for dinner. We're having Philly cheese steak garlic bread. Very excited. That sounds wonderful. It's really good. It's super easy to make. Even you could do it. Even I could do it. Yeah. Okay. If you can cook beef, you can make. It's funny. I actually made a steak yesterday. Well, there you go. Then you could do this. That's, I still have. I had two. So, so beef was what was for dinner, for you last? Beef was what was for like 11 a.m. dinner, yes. 11 a.m. dinner? Yeah, I mean, I made, I came right from this podcast. Uh-huh. And, oh, wait, no, I did it before this podcast. Yeah. And that's, in the South we call that lunch. Yeah, we do too. I was just kind of making a play on the dinner.

2:05.5

Beef could be what's for lunch. They could be for breakfast. Yeah, it was for something.

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I'm just saying, yeah, three squares a day. You can get beef. Yeah, it was good. Whoa.

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What?

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None. Just, you said three squares a day, you can get beef. Yeah, three squares a day you can get beef yeah three squares a day do you know what squares are yeah three square meals

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yes okay so why is that why does that get a pause i didn't say pause i just said

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we gave it a thought you thought about it so about hitting the pause button no the

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no pause button hit okay beef it's what's for dinner. Thanks to our friends at the Mississippi or lunch or breakfast. Thanks to our friends, the Mississippi Beef Council. College Corner, College Corner Store.com is the place to find the maroon and white merchandise that you're looking for. Everything maroon and white. Everything is at College Corner. Two locations in the Jackson area, originally by Fleet Feet, Flob by the Halfshel, or you can shop online, college cornerstor.com. Whatever you're looking for, Mississippi State, for your home, for your car, for your tailgate, for your office, whatever it is. They've got it at College Corner. Priority One Bank, 16 locations here to serve you throughout Central Mississippi. Let Priority One Bank.com be your guide and show you not only they're going to be invest and manage your money, but how they're going to help you prepare for the future. Now more than ever when we have questions about your money, you need answers. You need to talk to someone who knows the answers, someone who knows you, someone who's going to treat you with respect and give you the level of service that you deserve. That's a banker at Priority One Bank. If you live in Central Mississippi, you live near a Priority One Bank location. Let Priority One Bank make you their priority. A little later in the show, Wilson Alexander of On Three Sports is going to join us. He joined us many times in the past when he was covering the LSU Tigers, now a national college football

3:41.3

writer for On 3. He was at the Manning Passing Academy, so we're going to get a little bit more

3:45.7

insight into what he saw from Camario Taylor there, plus we'll just talk some regular college

3:49.7

football stuff as well. But we will start on the Mississippi State side of things here.

3:56.3

I don't really know what to call this, this,

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series that we're doing here. I just want to go a little further in depth on each position,

4:03.9

more on the starter than anything else. And so we're going to have to talk about Fluff Bothwell

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today. And that's a guy who I think has the tools to be a top back in this league. This is a really good year for running

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