Unless he decides to go the Run DT or Combo DT archetype INSTEAD of the pass rush DT (which is what he stated), it is really stupid to go strength first.
And Bigger Blue, your guy will fail after he hits the 30/40s. He'll be extremely average/below average and no one will want him.
The key here is focusing on your majors. Strength is extremely important but if you want to build using the pass rusher archetype you need to focus on the majors first; which happen to be speed, tackling, agility, vision.
With older DT's I'd go all agility to 77, strength to 77 etc etc.. but that's not feasible anymore. If he chooses a combo archetype than that's a different story. But I was going on the assumption that he was choosing to start with the pass rusher archetype.
Which just so happens to be his archetype:
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=2043456Please dude.