This is the important part: "The PF made nose-down control inputs and alternately left and right roll inputs."
The PF did indeed stick the nose down. It didn't work.
JD-EE,
Possibly it was even close to start to work (decrease from 7000 fpm to 700 fpm).
We'll see in a few weeks.
But remind (as said by others) it was never in a nose-down attitude.