AB skates. Had the airplane had conventional control columns the captain would have seen what his unskilled comrades were up to (no pun intended).
So the Mighty Captain would have realized the problem and known how to deal with it? Just mislead by that side stick and those damn First Officers hu?
Get real and stop playing this Captain vs First Officer game. They were a crew and unfortunately they seem to have not realized what the problem was and that the aircraft was in fact stalled.
Pitch and thrust. It's all in the QRH.