There has to be some definition of 'pushing' or letting the nose down. It just can't have been a very pronounced maneuver.
Any attempt to sustain 14 degrees up as the speed came back towards the shake would be catastrophic, obviously. Somehow, that had to be corrected, and one would hope by just allowing the nose to come down a bit...accepting going below the glide, and trying to nail an attitude that was a last-ditch compromise.
I'll leave the flap setting out of the equation, as it may or may not have been just being part of that compromise.