You can back out. Go ahead, back out. Die with honor. I swear that's exactly what went through my mind. I learned at a young age to never tackle soft.
Some players do because they are afraid if they go in hard, they're going to get hurt.
In actuality it's the exact opposite. You go in as hard as you can to prevent injury to yourself. When you go in soft, that's when you get injured. So I steamrolled ahead and slid in as hard as I could with all those other legs. All the legs collided at once, and the ball ended up just popping out of there to one of my teammates and the threat had died.