You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.
I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.
You can't be afraid to play. Commit to play and you live with the results.
You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.