As captain, I always told my F/O/'s that the only reason I was in the left seat was that I was hired before them. The captain isn't paid more to fly the jet, but to make consistently correct decisions - for which he solely will be held legally responsible.
I had many, many F/O's over the years who were, undoubtedly, better "sticks" than I. I even had a former Space Shuttle commander as my F/O one trip. So I never kidded myself about my "superior" abilities just because I had four stripes.
But as for the handling the throttles on T/O, we did it the easy way - we just followed our company procedure.
