The West has been the better division since as long as I've been alive. So I'm not overly surprised that the Western teams are beating up on the Eastern teams in week 1.
As a side note, I wasn't impressed with Toronto, late surge or not. I had a feeling Montreal was going to fall back to earth this year, but man, they looked horrible last night.
So, I think the Cats have as good a shot as anyone in the East this year.
2004 we beat BC on the road in week 1 in a game where Danny Mac threw for something like 575 yards. We went 3-0 before losing 5 straight and dropping to 3-5. Finished the season 9-8-1 and bowed out in the East Semi against Toronto.
First games can really set the tone of the season.
BTW on an unrelated side note: The new Firefox browser has a built in spell checker for any text box. I find that useful