I'm asking for competent and consistent LB play. Not a superstar. Having a penchant for a few highlight plays is novel, but no where near ideal. Strength at the POA and coverage ability are the two main areas of strength that are required from the LB unit in our scheme and those a both valid weaknesses in Alonso's game.
I'll let you have the last word here if you like, I'm going to stop as to not derail the thread topic.
One of My favorite Dolphins players all time would more times then not get eaten up by blockers, especially Centers, and his coverage ability was at best average, yet to me Zach Thomas, was one of the best LBs Miami ever had. Now Kiko willl never...ever come close to being Zach Thomas, but unlike Zach, he can still become better against blockers, and at one time (Could be wrong, just hearsay on my part), I heard Kiko was actually very good in coverage.
Kiko is too light, his biggest problem has been him being injured all the time, that probably hindered him actually working out hard enough where he could add muscle to that frame, he also has played on three teams in his short career, with some luck (Health wise), he could finally develop into the LB he should have been by now.
He is an above average blitzer, he has pretty good instincts (Though a few times I saw him totally fooled going the wrong side), he is an OK tackler (does miss tackles here and there, but him being a hard hitter also works in his favor), he also is fearless (Saw him on a few occasions going over air-bound over the line to stop a 3rd/4th and short, he does not give up on plays, and seems to be hyped up every single play.
Kiko needs to add 5-10 more pounds of muscle on his frame (That does not happen overnight), which can easily handle it, and needs to work hard to correct his weak point, but nothing he has done tells me that he can not correct his weak points to at least be a good complementary LB .
This is also my last, I made my thoughts pretty clear, whether anyone thinks they are right or wrong.