Bengals, Tanks and Pacmans, no more — hopefully.

On Wednesday, the NFL wrapped up its half-week rookie symposium in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. in an effort to educate the league’s first-year players of the pitfalls they might encounter playing professional football.

Arrests, substance abuse, bankruptcy and bad press are just a few of the things the NFL works on educating the rookies about every year to help them avoid those problems.

“The focus for us is how do we make these guys better men,” said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during a Monday press conference. “What can we do to help prepare them for the decisions they will have to make as NFL players? It’s a big transition from college, so I think we’re providing some tools for them.”

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The symposium is always focused on helping the rookies make the transition from college to the professional game, but Goodell and the NFL adapt it every year to address the problems players are facing.

There has been intense scrutiny of NFL players due to the off the field problems for the Cincinnati Bengals, former Chicago Bear Terry “Tank” Johnson and Tennessee Titan Adam “Pacman” Jones. Goodell said that the vast majority of the NFL conforms to the higher standards of behavior the league expects, but the few that have not make the entire league look poorly.

“I would rather them be making good choices,” Goodell said of Johnson and Jones. “We’re trying to do everything we can to support them to make choices. If they don’t, that’s the decision they make and it will affect their future.”

Rookies spent the symposium watching skits and reenactments of situations as well as listening to lectures from current and former NFL players.

“At times the program did get repetitive,” said Towson University product and New Orleans Saints rookie Jermon Bushrod. “They cover everything that we could screw up. They covered it all.”

On the last day, retired wide receiver Cris Carter’s talk about how he turned his career around and battled substance abuse really stuck with Bushrod. The other aspect of the symposium that impressed the offensive lineman was the education in financial stability.

“The different ways you can invest your money and how the NFL helps you do that, it opened my eyes,” Bushrod said. “It was a learning experience about how to be successful in the NFL and play now and save money for when your career is over.”