CC is famous for starting slow. But in all fairness, his contract will be very hard to live up to even if he does pitch well. He has a lot of mileage on that arm from the last couple years, and it might catch up to him, might. I would imagine he will hit his stride at some point this season.
BTW can someone please take him to a tailor, dude looked like he was pitching in sweat pants last night.