Originally Posted by TALPAtalker

I would add further to this and say that if there is no "dead time" between the taxi checklist and the takeoff roll, that would qualify as rushing, even if the FO is not necessarily hurrying through each task. It seems most captains are not cognizent of how much work is going on in the right seat. (This is not a uniquely Delta problem.) I've had some insist on a single engine taxi (which is fine) but then also want to dictate the precise second when the second engine will be started. If the idea here is to take the runway while the engine hits its minimum warm up time, it means the FO will have been forced into an unnecessarily compressed block of time to accomplish before takeoff tasks, configure radios, talk to the FAs, and maybe hear the full takeoff clearance before the engines are spooled up.