Sure he did. There was zero mention of gambling in the conversation preceding his comment. It was spoken from the mouth of an under-confident (with good reason, perhaps) Bills fan. It seems pervasive, this seeming comfort with the "underdog" role. When reality tells us that that mutt gets put down 99.9% of the time.
Underdogs whine for attention, while the big dogs bark "get the **** off my porch".