Obie your comment was too cryptic for me. Were you talking about my remark re EPR 1.14?
If so, please explain?
In return, my take; was once they had dealt with all the crap before start (tiredness, company procs, distractions etc) and were taxying, that there was only one chance for them (and in future any of us all) to recognise the bullsh1t, and that was to ask the simple question - "doesn't an EPR of 1.14 a look little low tonight, given that we are departing for 15 hours at 10t below MTOW??"
Even if they had recognised this at the point of setting thrust on takeoff and gone TOGA, yes - it may have still been a tailscrape, but that would have been on the runway, and as an incident would have died a natural death many pages ago.