Have you ever felt disconcerted? It is a terrible feeling, the worst in the world.
Wait, no, actually it isn’t. “Disconcerted” is when you realize you have left your shirt partially untucked. When you’re a quarter short for the vending machine. When your uncle starts telling a mildly off-color story at Thanksgiving. You’re flustered or rattled, not devastated.
A day when the worst thing that happens to you is being disconcerted is a pretty good one.
Nevertheless, when the Bengals “disconcerted” the Cardinals on Sunday night, it may have made the difference in the game between two of the top teams in the N.